Livestock production system in Costa Rica

Costa Rica is a small country with a strong vocation towards livestock production, especially cattle production systems for beef and milk production. Of the 5 million hectares that comprise its territory, half are pastures. Beef production is carried out under extensive and semi-extensive systems of grazing. Low prices of meat in the international markets, along with low production and productivity indexes per unit area, have led to a significant reduction in the cattle population, from 2.1 million head in 1988 to an estimated to 1.6 million in 1994, in contrast with the human population which continues to grow at a steady 2.5 per year. Since 1987, milk production has become a more important economic activity in milk production that year, generating a small but growing surplus of milk for export to neighboring countries

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	44175 Arias, J.A., 50382 Botero, R., 97591 Murillo, C., 112406 Rodríguez, J.C., 123660 Taylor, R., 13401 Management Entity, Small Ruminant Collaborative Research Support Program, Davis, Calif. (EUA), IICA, San José (Costa Rica) 14, Latin America Livestock Regional Assessment Workshop San José (Costa Rica) 15-18 Abr 1996
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	San José (Costa Rica) 1997
Subjects:	COSTA RICA, SISTEMAS DE PRODUCCION, PRODUCCION DE CARNE, PRODUCCION LECHERA, AGRICULTURA,
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