Mixed model methodology for farm and ranch beef cattle testing programs.
The diversity is staggering: types of vegetation and associated management practices which range from commercial ranches to traditional transhumance and nomadic systems.
The first is to continue with the present group ranch system.
The important question is whether the whole ranch system is resilient in the face of a simultaneous drought and a change in the market.
In-terms of vegetation, 80 per cent of the district can be classified as low savanna and arid/semi-arid (ranching zones).
But the development of individual ranches raised several concerns.
Logging generally is the initial mode of land development, followed by land clearing, cropping, and cattle ranching.
They are labeled as 'costs' due to the prevailing notion that ranching leads to negative environmental impacts.
