Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-8bhkd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-08T08:36:55.887Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

3.3 The use of by-products for intensive animal production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

T. R. Preston
Affiliation:
Centro Dominicano de Investigación Pecuaria con Caña de Azúcar, Consejo Estatal del Azúcar, Apartado 1258, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad de Yucatán, Apartado 116-D, Mérida, M´xico.
Get access

Extract

In the majority of developing countries, there is increasing competition for land use. This is due, on the one hand, to increasing population pressure and, on the other hand, to the need to earn/save foreign exchange by growing crops for export and also for human consumption at home. In this situation, it becomes increasingly difficult to justify the utilization of land for animal production only, as is the case in grazing systems.

Type
Feed Supplies
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Production 1981

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Alvarez, F. J. and Preston, T. R. 1976. Amonia/molasses and urea/molasses as additives for ensiled sugarcane. Trop. Anim. Prod. 1:98105.Google Scholar
Herrera, F., Elliott, R. and Preston, T. R. 1980. The use of sisal bagasse as a feed for ruminants. Trop. Anim. Prod. 5: (in press).Google Scholar
Kempton, T. J., Nolan, J. V. and Leng, R. A. 1977. Principles for the use of non-protein nitrogen and by-pass proteins in diets of ruminants. Wld Anim. Rev. 22:210.Google Scholar
Preston, T. R., Hinojosa, C. and Martinez, L. 1976. Ensiling of sugar cane with ammonia molasses and mineral acids. Trop. Anim. Prod. 1:120127.Google Scholar
Preston, T. R. and Leng, R. A. 1979. The digestion of tropical feeds by ruminants. Proc. Vth int. Symp. on Ruminant Physiology, Clermont-Ferrand, France (in press).Google Scholar