Título

Dual purpose cattle production in Mexico

Autor

ROLANDO ROJO RUBIO

José Fernando Vázquez Armijo

PONCIANO PEREZ HERNANDEZ

GERMAN DAVID MENDOZA MARTINEZ

Abdelfattah Zeidan Mohamed Salem

BENITO ALBARRAN PORTILLO

ARNOLDO GONZALEZ REYNA

Javier Hernández Martínez

SAMUEL REBOLLAR REBOLLAR

DANIEL CARDOSO JIMENEZ

ERNESTO JOEL DORANTES CORONADO

Jesús Gastón Gutiérrez Cedillo

Nivel de Acceso

Acceso Abierto

Resumen o descripción

Cattle production is one of the most important livestock activities in the rural areas of Mexico, with most of the national territory dedicated to it, in addition to the use of the most agricultural supplies and forages resources, as well as agricultural and agro-industrial by-products. Mexico is placed among the ten first meat and milk producer countries worldwide, being the Mexican tropical zone one of the main suppliers of such products. One of the main milk sources is the dual purpose cattle, such systems can be described as those that produce milk (daily milking) and meat (calf after weaning), on every productive cycle. They are mainly located in developing regions and characterized by using low-technology and in poor environments, consequently productive levels are considered low. Milk is destined for self-consumption or for sale at local markets and calf after weaning is sold at local feedlots or for export. Regarding to the little information available about the dual purpose systems, the present work is intended to discuss the main characteristics of cattle production in dual purpose systems in Mexico.

Editor

Springer

Fecha de publicación

30 de octubre de 2008

Tipo de publicación

Artículo

Idioma

Inglés

Audiencia

Estudiantes

Investigadores

Repositorio Orígen

REPOSITORIO INSTITUCIONAL DE LA UAEM

Descargas

811

Comentarios



Necesitas iniciar sesión o registrarte para comentar.