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Cattle, rainfall, and tsetse in Africa

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dc.contributor.authorBourn, D.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialAfricaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:55:46Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:55:46Zen
dc.date.issued1978en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractIncreased population pressure has led to attempts to reclaim some to the ten million square miles of Africa in which tsetse fly occur. The paper traces the occurrence of tsetse fly, and its impact on cattle. In tsetse free areas, cattle biomass increases with rainfall, but in countries partially infested with tsetse, no clear relationship with rainfall is shown, and countries with high incidence of tsetse have low cattle biomasses whatever the rainfall. The author concludes that if tsetse fly were to be eradicated, this could lead to an increase in the biomass of cattle in these regions. He cautions that this could entail the degradation of much of the land as has occurred in tsetse free areas, and then the decline in productivity; he proposes that research into optimum carrying capacity should be carried out in order to maximize production. He asserts that optimum carrying capacity predictions derived from meteorological statistics have some validity, and would be useful for desirable stocking levels for economic assessment of tsetse eradication programs, and for livestock development projects generally. -b/men
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier1129en
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Arid Environments 1(1): 49-61en
dc.identifier.issn0140-1963en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/65966en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherElsevier B.V.en
dc.subjectPest controlen
dc.subjectCattleen
dc.subjectGrazingen
dc.subjectArid zonesen
dc.subjectLivestock carrying capacityen
dc.subjectLivestock managementen
dc.subjectOver grazingen
dc.subjectLivestocken
dc.subjectTsetse flyen
dc.subjectRainfallen
dc.subjectLand useen
dc.subjectPrecipitationen
dc.subjectEcosystemen
dc.titleCattle, rainfall, and tsetse in Africaen
dc.typeAbstracten
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