On sustaining the ecology and livestock industry of the Bayanbuluk Grasslands

作     者：Adrian R WILLIAMS 

作者机构：Pendragon Dryland Management Services 

出 版 物：《Journal of Arid Land》 (干旱区科学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2010年第2卷第1期

页      面：57-63页

核心收录：

学科分类：090503[农学-草业科学] 0909[农学-草学] 0905[农学-畜牧学] 09[农学] 0903[农学-农业资源与环境] 

基　　金：Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography 

主　　题：Bayanbuluk Grasslands Tianshan Mountains reversing grassland degradation improving livestock productivity 

摘      要：A short visit to the Bayanbuluk Grassland in the Tianshan Mountains, Xinjiang, PRC, revealed a number of environmental and livestock production problems, including grassland degradation, loss of grassland biodiversity, soil erosion and flash flooding downstream, decreased pasture productivity, and poor livestock nutrition (especially in winter) leading to stock losses and flocks and herds of low productivity. This paper describes those problems and then suggests some solutions. Short duration, high intensity grazing could be one of the solutions to both improving grassland condition and improving livestock nutrition. Local production of fodder crops for feeding in winter and spring deserves testing, using adapted strains of Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) and trialling fodder root crop production. It is important to realise that the land management objectives of scientists, administrators, herders and farmers may be similar, and that there are opportunities for land improvement through working together.