B. A MILK AND BEEF PRODUCTION SYSTEM USING CROP DERIVATIVES RESEARCH PROJECT Past animal production research has primarily focused on improving methods of specialized milk and beef production . This purely livestock approach to research ...

The Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza ( CATIE ) , an agricultural research and training ... the 1989 Plan of Operations ( POP ) , was " to improve production and income options of small farmers in Central America .

Improved small farms systems are target area specific and promote efficient use of local resources and by products , with technological levels adapted to the ecological and socio - economic limitations . Improved systems , ( 1 ) will ...

18. International Conference of Agricultural Economists . Jakarta ( Indonesia ) . 24 Ago - 2 Set 1982 . Improving the small farm production systems in Central America . Turrialba ( Costa Rica ) . 1982. 11 p . 14 ref . Sum . ( En ) .

BACKGROUND The most important condition of the research on improved technologies for small farmers which CATIE is ... In general , the small farmers of the Central American Isthmus manage farms either on an individual or collective ...

DEVELOPMENT OF IMPROVED FARMING SYSTEMS FOR SMALL FARM INCOME GENERATION CATIE COUNTER PROPOSAL INTRODUCTORY ... Farming Systems for Small Income Generation " that AID / W is interested to implement in the Central American Republics .

4.2 Perennial Plants An evaluation of the farm in the different areas of the Central American Isthmus where small farmers are concentrated reveal that perennial plants constitute an important part of production systems and a sure source ...

Improving the small farm production systems in Central America . CATIE , Turrialba , C.R. s.p. Presentado en Conferencia Internacional de Economistas ( 18. , Jakarta , Indonesia ) ; un BENA VIDES , J.E. 1989. La producción caprina como ...