Homero Salinas-Gonzalez*

Assistant professor, Cooperative Extension and Research Animal Science, Lincoln University, United States

*Corresponding Author: Homero Salinas-Gonzalez, Assistant professor, Cooperative Extension and Research Animal Science, Lincoln University, United States.

Received: April 23, 2021; Published: February 01, 2022

Small ruminant farmers are located in marginal areas where the existing agroecosystems make it hard to incorporate new technologies. For extensive production systems, small ruminant farmers to obtain enough production prefer to increase the number of animals per flock rather than increase the yield of meat or milk per head through innovation and intensification. Innovation incorporates, in most cases, initial investment and more labor use that discourage farmers besides the fact that small ruminant products experience price markets uncertainty and excessive milk-meat processing regulations. On the other hand, conventional small ruminant production systems generally degrade natural resources, reduce biodiversity, and increase negative environmental impacts, such as water contamination and soil erosion. The overgrazing of pasture and subsequent soil erosion contributes to limited regional agricultural development.

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Citation

Citation: Homero Salinas. “Small Ruminant Production Systems and Actual Circumstances for Small and Disadvantaged Farmers". Acta Scientific Veterinary Sciences 4.3 (2022): 01.

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Copyright: © 2022 Homero Salinas-Gonzalez. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.