Lamb Production in Patagonia
Corti, Paulo
- 1
- 2Chilean Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- 3Kampenaike Research Station
- 4Universidad Austral de Chile
Journal
Traditional Livestock Production: Adaptation to Organic Production Systems
Open Access
closed
Start page
127
End page
148
The lamb production area in Chilean Patagonia are located to the east in the Andean rain shadow, on the continental part and Tierra del Fuego Island, occuping an area of 35,962.6 km[[sup]]2[[/sup]]. The lamb meet is a relevant market today in this region, but is important to improve the grassland and rangeland degradation to maintain the quality of this product for the future. For latter, to improve the lamb production, grazing managemnet is the key factor where the calculate of carryng capacity is the primary determiantion to sustainable farm production. But also another points are important, to underpin the description of lamb systems, different characteristics are detailed in this chapter; as the geographical area, weather, rangelands soils, Magellan grazing ecosystem, lambs production, health and diseases, lamb and wildlife coexistence, welfare and market perspectives.