The goat farming management for arid and desert zones: a technical approach to produce high quality milk during all the year

Scopinich-Cisternas, Juan; Strahsburger, Erwin

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“…This warming climate change has impacted the hydrological cycle inducing a Hadley cell expansion and poleward movements of the jet stream, making dry areas becoming drier and wet areas became wetter [1]. This effect has been observed mainly in countries situated between 30 degrees latitude south and 30-degree latitude north (Hardly cell) and correspond very well with the reported literature by these countries to counteracts or diminish the drought effect on farming activities [2][3][4][5]. Among these detrimental effects, desertification is defined as the effects of constant dry or persistent drought on fertile lands, making them desert and unsuitable for agricultural activities.…”

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Goat Type Selection and Molecular Markers; a Solution for Milk Production in Recently Desertified Zones

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Scopinich-Cisternas²

2023

Goat Science - Environment, Health and Economy

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Goat farming has been severely affected by Desertification, limiting their water and food resources and inducing physiological heat stress that reduces the doe milk yield. Does well adapted to heat stress would be a possible solution, but creole or indigenous goats from desert or arid areas produce between 0.5 to 1.5 L of milk per day, which is lower than the 3 L of milk per day produced by dairy goats like the Saanen breed. Nevertheless, in this chapter, we will discuss the disadvantages of introducing common dairy goats in dry places. Instead, we propose the introduction of desert goats from the Middle East or India, because they produce high-quality milk with low feed intake, making a profitable goat farming activity, and an opportunity to include crossbreeding strategies to improve the herd milk yield. Creole goats, on other hand, has been an underestimated livestock animal with a rich and unveil genetic patrimony that migth improve the herd milk yield. The effect of improved diets and extensive husbandry conditions remains unexplored in desert creole goats, and the use of advanced knowledge in goat genomics, genetic expression, and a wide variety of molecular markers can improve the studies on creole goats for crossbreeding strategies identifying the best traits involved in high-quality milk production and adaptation to dry environments. In this way, the synergy between goat type selection and molecular markers should boost goat farming in recently new desert or arid zones, counteracting the detrimental effects produced by the desertification.

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Goat Type Selection and Molecular Markers; a Solution for Milk Production in Recently Desertified Zones

Strahsburger¹,

Scopinich-Cisternas²

2023

Goat Science - Environment, Health and Economy

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The goat farming management for arid and desert zones: a technical approach to produce high quality milk during all the year

Abstract: El manejo en la crianza de cabra en zonas áridas y desérticas; un enfoque técnico para producir leche de alta calidad durante todo el año

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Goat Type Selection and Molecular Markers; a Solution for Milk Production in Recently Desertified Zones

Goat Type Selection and Molecular Markers; a Solution for Milk Production in Recently Desertified Zones

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