The overall benefits of crop-livestock
integration can be summarized as follows:
• Agronomic, through the retrieval and
maintenance of the soil productive
capacity;
• Economic, through product diversification
and higher yields and quality at less cost;
• Ecological, through the reduction of crop
pests (less pesticide use and better soil
erosion control); and
• Social, through the reduction of ruralurban
migration and the creation of new
job opportunities in rural areas