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  • From: Mark <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] WILD FARMING
  • Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 07:47:06 -0600

At 01:03 AM 10/29/02 -0800, you wrote:
Fodder accounts for nearly 70% of livestock rearing cost. Availability
is a problem. It is supplemented with fresh leaves, which the village
women get from far off places. Fodder is being imported into the
mountains from the plains as well. This needs to be stopped and fodder
needs to be either grown or grazing areas increased scientifically

Hmmm. Seems like this is one of the most valuable inputs for this system. Why not view fodder importation as a cost of doing business as well as increasing local sylvo pasture productivity? Remember that you import minerals as well as mulch with that fodder and could use it for bio gas too.


Mark P. Ludwig
Poultry Research Lab
University of Wisconsin -Madison
608-262-1730 WK
608-846-7125 HM





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