Grasslands of the World.pdf - Disasters and Conflicts - UNEP

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Grasslands of the world
Plate 1.12
Inner Mongolia – meadow hay prepared by herders for winter feeding.
Plate 1.13
Straw stacked for use as winter feed – Muzaffarabad, Pakistan.
become very important economically in the Pakistan Punjab is described by
Dost (2004). Hay from natural meadows has been used by herders (Plate 1.12)
for a very long time, but traditional pastoralists do not usually sow fodder;
Wang (2003) describes an interesting scheme in the Altai region of Xinjiang
in China , wherein Kazakh herders produce alfalfa (Medicago sativa ) hay for
winter feed on irrigated lowlands while maintaining their spring to autumn
transhumant migration.
Crop residues , especially straws and stovers (Plate 1.13), are very important
as livestock feed in both commercial and traditional systems ; in commercial
farming they are usually part of the roughage ration and supplemented with
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