Features of dairy farming under crop-livestock mixed systems in Upper Egypt [electronic resource].

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A hundred dairy farms under mixed farming system located in three districts (EI-Waqaff, 31 farms, Qafft 27 farms and Qana 42 farms) in Qana governorate in Upper Egypt were randomly selected with the objectives to characterize the existing dairy farming systems in Upper Egypt. A questionnaire was designed and pre-tested to obtain data on average crop production, farm size, family crop consumption, crop cost and revenues, average cattle breed composition per farm, animal feeding, family size, average milk .production in dairy farms and milk revenue over feeding cost. Data were collected through personal interviews. - The results showed that average cultivated areas/farm was 23.02, 9.15 and 7.07 feddan (1 feddan = 4200 m2 ) for the studied districts, respectively. Percentages of milk production revenue over feeding cost in the three districts were 1.23%, 0.96% and 1.04% for local cows, 1.31%, 1.09% and 1.44% for buffaloes and 1.22%, 1.07% and 1.12% for crossbred cattle for the same areas, respectively. Statistical descriptive and quantitative analyses were used in this study. Average number of animals per farm in the three districts were 22.69, 5.00 and 11.39 heads for local breed; 16.05,4.00 and 7.09 heads for buffalo and 17.55, 18.17 and 13.40 heads for crossbred animals, respectively.)

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