PRODUCTIVITY OF A SILVOPASTORAL SYSTEM UNDER INTENSIVE MIXED SPECIES GRAZING BY CATTLE AND SHEEP

The presence of forage trees in pastures enhances yield and nutritional quality of forage available for animal feeding. We assessed forage yield and nutritional quality, and weight gain of cattle and sheep foraging in a silvopastoral system containing Guazuma ulmifolia Lam. and the grasses Digitaria...

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Main Authors: Leonor Yalid Manriquez-Mendoza, Silvia López-Ortiz, Carlos Olguín-Palacios, Ponciano Pérez-Hernández, Pablo Díaz-Rivera, Zenón Gerardo López-Tecpoyotl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán 2011-11-01
Series:Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems
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Online Access:http://www.revista.ccba.uady.mx/ojs/index.php/TSA/article/view/1418