Degraded pastures in Brazil: improving livestock production and forest restoration.

ABSTRACT: Degraded pasture is a major liability in Brazilian agriculture, but restoration and recovery efforts could turn this area into a new frontier to both agricultural yield expansion and forest restoration. Currently, rural properties with larger degraded pasture areas are associated with higher levels of technical inefficiency in Brazil. The recovery of 12 million ha of degraded pastures could generate an additional production of 17.7 million bovines while reducing the need for new agricultural land. Regional identification of degraded pastures would facilitate the targeting of agricultural extension and advisory services and rural credit efforts aimed at fostering pasture recovery. Since only 1% of Brazilian municipalities contain 25% of degraded pastures, focusing pasture recovery efforts o

SUBMITTER: Feltran-Barbieri R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8261223 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature