Where ranching predominates, wetlands provide choice dry-season pastures; corrals and milking sheds often perch on the islands.
They are labeled as 'costs' due to the prevailing notion that ranching leads to negative environmental impacts.
Following the removal of such distortions, if ranching remains a profitable activity, then the analysis may move on to the next step in the analysis.
Logging generally is the initial mode of land development, followed by land clearing, cropping, and cattle ranching.
In-terms of vegetation, 80 per cent of the district can be classified as low savanna and arid/semi-arid (ranching zones).
They proposed ranching schemes, market access, improved breeding techniques, and commercialized stock farming as solutions to the 'pastoral problem'.
Given the decline in international beef prices, such concerns are currently often qualified by the statement that 'in any case, ranching is not even profitable'.
Commercial livestock ranching systems (which replaced the wild herds and are barely a hundred years old) produce meat, hides and fiber.
