ment stock were commonly covered by selling livestock
(78 % of responses). Savings (12 % of responses) and
off-farm income (8 % of responses) were other sources
for planned household expenses.
Livestock manure produced on the 121 livestock
farms studied was mainly used for fertilizing cash crops
(34 % of responses), followed by the use as a gift (32 %
of responses) and sale (27 % of responses; not shown
in the table). The application of manure to the pasture
(5 % of responses) and the use for other purposes, such
as biogas production, exchange for crop residues and
disposal (3 % of responses) was not common. Among
the beef cattle farmers 68 % sold manure to generate ad-ditional income, compared to 50 % of the beef buffalo
farmers ( p