Summary Poor livestock health remains one of the main constraints to livestock development . ... most recently , the shift from planned to market economies in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States , have sharpened ...

Eastern Caribbean ( Currency ) Ethylene Dibromide European Development Fund European Economic Community Environmental Protection Agency ( U.S. ) Food & Agriculture Organization Freight On Board Inter - American Development Bank Inter ...

Such production of both traditional export crop commodities and emerging ... Therefore , the paper briefly examines new constraints in apparent opportunities for Caribbean Agro - Processing Diversification ( CAPD ) into secondary and ...

... including 70 % zebu , 15 % cross bred and 15 % European breeds . Trypanosomiasis , together with the other hemoparasites , anaplasmosis and babesiosis , was suspected to be one of the greatest constraints to cattle production .

In the case of sugar and bananas , there is a dependance on European Economic Community preference markets which may end in ... This augurs well for the introduction of more sophisticated production systems for crops and livestock .

As described by Seré ( 1983 ) , they are characterized by the presence of temperate grasses and legumes , with cattle mostly of European extraction . Because climatic variation throughout the year is minimal , the production system that ...