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Opportunities and challenges for integrating dairy cattle into farms with certified organic pineapple production as perceived by smallholder farmers in Central Uganda

机译：乌干达中部小农农民鉴定有机菠萝生产农场农场的机遇和挑战

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A study was conducted in 2013 to assess opportunities and challenges of integrating dairy cattle into organic pineapple production in Uganda. Thirty organic pineapple farmers were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire. The main dairy cattle management systems were tethering (73%) and zero grazing (27%). Average landholding was 1.74 ±1.06 and 3.75 ± 2.70 ha for zero grazing and tethering systems, respectively. All farms were diversified with various livestock such as cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, and chickens and crops including pineapples, maize, coffee, bananas, beans, sweet potatoes, and cassava. The level of integration of dairy cattle into pineapple production depended on the distance of crop fields from the livestock enterprises. More farms (83%) with pineapple fields closer (< 0.5 km) to the homesteads were able to use cattle manure as fertilizer compared to homesteads (50%) with more distant fields (> 0.5 km). The distance to the homesteaddid not influence 30% of the farmers who used crop residues for feeding dairy cattle. Farmers perceived cattle diseases and feed scarcity to be the major challenges in dairy farming. The sources of risk on the farms were perceived to be erratic rainfall,limited knowledge, and market for organic products. Majority of farmers (77%) expressed willingness to convert to organic dairy production. Availability of markets for organic dairy products (36%) and reduction of external input use (26%) were the mainreasons for farmers' willingness to convert. Integrating dairy cattle with pineapple production is an opportunity for closed nutrient cycles and income diversification. However, knowledge, access to inputs, and organized markets are needed as incentive for conversion to organic dairy production.
机译：2013年进行了一项研究，以评估将奶牛融入乌干达有机菠萝生产的机会和挑战。使用半结构化问卷采访了三十个有机菠萝农民。主要的乳制品牛管理系统是束缚（73％）和零放牧（27％）。零放牧和系绳系统分别平均土地为1.74±1.06和3.75±2.70公顷。所有农场都与各种牲畜多样化，如牛，山羊，羊，猪和鸡和鸡，包括菠萝，玉米，咖啡，香蕉，豆类，甜土豆和木薯。乳制品牛群融入菠萝生产的水平取决于畜牧业企业的作物领域的距离。与宅基地更接近（<0.5公里）的菠萝田的更多农场（83％）能够与宅基（50％）相比，使用牛粪作为肥料（50％），具有更多距离（50％）（> 0.5公里）。与HomeSteaddid的距离不影响使用用于喂养奶牛的农作物残留物的农民30％。农民感知牛疾病和饲料稀缺是奶牛养殖的主要挑战。农场的风险来源被认为是有机的降雨，知识有限，有机产品的市场。大多数农民（77％）表示愿意转换为有机乳制品生产。有机乳制品的市场可用性（36％）和外部投入使用的减少（26％）是农民兑换意愿的主要内容。将乳制品与菠萝生产集成是营养周期和收入多样化的机会。然而，需要知识，进入，有组织的市场，因为转化为有机乳制品生产的动机。

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