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Article
Animal Production Systems in Algeria: Transformation and Tendencies in the Sétif Area
Author(s)
Khaled Abbas
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5828/2012.10.007
Affiliation(s)
INRA Algeria, Unité de Sétif, Route des jardins, Sétif, 19000, Algéria
ABSTRACT
Algeria registers only0.25 haof agricultural
surface per capita. This indicates very low agricultural capacities. Otherwise
agricultural activities are concentrated in a narrow fringe of the Northern
part of the country where the dominant climate is semi-arid with very irregular
rainfalls. A majority of farms
produces its main part of income from cereal crops¾livestock association system. However, the diversity
of the climate and the physical environment, on one hand, and the agricultural
policies on the other hand, induce major transformations in this system.
Transformations are also the result of a significant demographic growth in rural
area. In this context, significant issues appear in term of resource’s uses and
systems’ sustainability. To shed light in the actual situation, this study,
based on a survey of 90 owners, shows that: the intensification can constitute
a threat on the pastoral resources; the weakness of the farms encourages the
generalization of practices characterised by a weak feed autonomy and a bad management
of stock fodders; the animal interspecific integration and partial
intensification are positive if they follow models which ensure autonomy,
performance and optimal pastoral resource management.
KEYWORDS
Algeria, semi-arid, production system, transformation, animal production, dairy cattle.
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