ROLES OF BOVINES IN INTEGRATED FARMING OF SMALL FARMA IN TAIWAN : PROVIDING POWER , BY – PRODUCT CONVERTERS , MANURE , EMPLOYMENT & STABILITY
Cattle and buffaloes have played important roles in the farming integration of small farms in Taiwan as listed below.
*provide draft power for tillage and haulage.
*Efficiently convert non –marketable crop residues and by- products into meat or milk.
*supply manure and recycle nutrients in the farm ecology.
*Enable the full utilization of low opportunity cost farm labor (older people and children)
*Stabilize the production system against crop losses and climatic disaster. ..[11/154]