Without a better understanding of popular terminology and establishment of clear philosophical goals, it will be impossible to design and conduct relevant crop/livestock research.
On the outskirts of the bazaar, livestock dealers lead their swarming herds along narrow village paths lined by millet-stalk fences.
Integrating forage, crop and livestock systems can spread economic and production risks over several different enterprises, thereby taking advantage of a variety of agricultural markets5,7.
While we do not explicitly model any benefits associated with more livestock patches, it is reasonable to assume they would exist.
The livestock element has tended to be viewed by scientists as an adjunct to crops, to which it contributes manure and draught power.
Rather than attempting uniform area-wide, inundative releases of sterile males, it may be more cost-effective to preferentially target aggregated populations associated with livestock.
If in addition to it not being removed, village livestock grazing is not restricted, the number of tigers could fall to perilously low levels.
Farming systems are dominated by mixed cropping, mixed farming (crop and livestock production) and mono-cropping of cereals.