Technologies for obtaining meat in sustainable agriculture systems with coconut palms

摘要

The lands of the Cuban cattle raising have limitations in the quality of their soils, besides that, its alimentary resources are at the present time truly scarce, and their prices keep raising to the extent of being very hard to reach. On the other hand, the climatic conditions in the tropic are more and more severe, limiting the comfort of plants and animals and their productive potential. That situation is more critical in the traditional grassing systems with scarce trees. Because of that, in theearly nineties, a reanalysis was done of the principles that sustained the Cuban agricultural development, which was highly dependent of foreign resources. According to this policy, it was considered to be necessary the study the coconut trees (Cocus nucifera) within the fruit crops, assessing the simultaneous development of leguminous coverings and silvopastoril systems. This would propitiate the minimizing of foreign resources, besides maximizing the recycling of nutrients, making possible a better, integral harmony of the system. The present work summarizes the available information, facilitating the producer alternatives and knowledge that it would enable him to establish an appropriate harmony among the zootechnical handling of its ovine flock, the covering and the main cultivation, with the aim of developing technologies that allow the diversification and animal integration in production coconut farms, with the use of coverings of leguminous.