Mixed grazing systems to improve production gains at pasture: a review

d'Alexis, Séverine; Mahieu, Maurice; Maryline, Boval

doi:10.1017/s2040470010001330

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“…This program has provided undergraduate students, family farmers and communities with the opportunity to design and build, not only a new pasture-based milk production system for the different regions, but also a rural development model based on consolidated experiences. The GPVoisin -Pasture Outreach Program has helped to increase farm profitability through pasture based dairy (Rizzoli and Schmitt, 2007). Farmer quality of life has improved and rural migration has been reduced in these rural communities.…”

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“…Pasture-based animal production has in the last decade assumed outstanding importance worldwide (Rizzoli and Schmitt, 2007). This fact is mostly related to economic advantages, animal welfare, and ecological issues (Murphy, 1998).…”

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“…Increasing social pressure has demanded organic animal products from agricultural methods that are safe, environmentally benign, and pasture-based. The viability of small family farms, through pasture-based ecological dairying, has been highlighted as a way to revitalize rural communities and so avoiding urban social problems in Brazil (Rizzoli and Schmitt, 2007). In this context the Voisin Grazing Group -GPVoisin, a Pasture Outreach Program started in Southern Brazil sponsored by farmers, students and professors (Federal University of Santa Catarina).…”

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Grass based agroecologic dairying to revitalize small family farms throughout student technical support: The development of a participative methodology responsible for 622 family farm projects

Schmitt

Murphy

Farley

2010

Advances in Animal Biosciences

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A typical pattern that has been observed is for farmers to initially use improved veterinary services to increase the milk yield per cow. Over time, this allows farmers to accumulate funds to also increase the number of cows. This has led to increases on single farms from 35 to 90 times the level of total milk production and allowed farmers to become solvent members in the community. An economic analysis shows that the CDVS has tended to increase net farmers' income as well. More than 75% of farm families had an increase in net income, which ranged from US$ 1.0 to 19.2 per cow per month. A similar programme was established in the Chittagong in 2002. At the beginning, there were 70 farmers producing about 1500 litres of milk per day. Currently, the programme involves 269 farm families who collectively produce about 10 000 litres/day. In addition, the CDVS developed a farmers association that bargains over milk prices with the sweetmeat industries. Previously farmers used to be exploited by the middleman and sweetmeat producers. Now that the productivity veterinary services are available and the associations bargain a good milk price, numbers of dairy farmers and farm milk production have increased. CDVF, in collaboration with BRAC, has extended its activity to the Sirajganj District of Bangladesh by using the same model that is successful in Satkhira. The farmers association in Sirajganj was started in Aug 2009 with an initial collection of 260 litres milk. Now the association is producing 1500 litres milk daily. CDVF has received a subcontract worth US$ 33 200 from Care Bangladesh to test the Satkhira Model in the Joypurhat District of Bangladesh. Current priority is to establish 10 community-based centres and develop those to maximum revenue earning levels incorporating other services like AI, feed and drug shops and community information centres. Each CDVF centre will act as a one stop hub from where the dairy farmers can buy all necessary services.

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