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Grasslands of the world
It is necessary to improve the extension of available technologies and to
promote the training of scientists specialized in management and conservation
of natural grasslands. This discipline does not exist in Uruguay , despite its main
agricultural exports being based on natural grassland outputs.
Scientific knowledge has contributed to better natural grasslands management
practice, which has resulted in biological and economic benefits for
farmer communities and society in the long term, with special care for animal
and vegetation biodiversity and water conservation for the use of all living
creatures. Plants and domestic animals will continue to provide the main food
and fibre source of the world, conditioning our actions and behaviour to preserve
natural resources for future generations.
In 1943, Professor Bernardo Rosengurtt wrote:
“Let us conserve with infinite care the prairie heritage, simultaneously national and private, to
transfer it whole to the coming generations.”
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