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Feeding Systems with Legumes to Intensify Dairy Farms - cgiar

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Usefulness of the CNCPS Model<br />

The Tropileche Consortium can benefit from a close collaboration <strong>with</strong><br />

the University of Cornell by developing a broad database on tropical forages<br />

and by calibrating the model for tropical conditions. Potential benefits of the<br />

CNCPS for Tropileche include:<br />

• This <strong>to</strong>ol may help joint efforts <strong>to</strong> identify alternatives <strong>with</strong> potential <strong>to</strong><br />

increase animal productivity by identifying nutritional constraints, for<br />

example alternative diets.<br />

• It is the basis <strong>to</strong> evaluate on-farm production systems and propose<br />

alternatives <strong>to</strong> select diets.<br />

• It compliments the CIAT farm-level model developed by R.D. Estrada <strong>to</strong><br />

conduct ex-ante and ex-post analysis at the farm and watershed levels.<br />

• It increases Tropileche's menu of options <strong>to</strong> support and complement<br />

the activities of partners and producer organizations, which could<br />

finance forage research.<br />

• High return on investment because Tropileche will invest marginally <strong>to</strong><br />

complement more than 10 years of research <strong>to</strong> develop the CNCPS at its<br />

current state.<br />

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