Conservation versus traditional cattle farming - the economic implications

Conservation versus traditional cattle farming - the economic implications

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In many areas of South Africa traditional subsistence farming practices entail overstocking of cattle.The resulting Baseplates damage to the veld can be arrested only by providing the farmers with economic incentives to reduce stocking densities.In this paper cattle offtake strategies are investigated with a view to maximising revenue Rapid Cooling Tools at lower stocking densities.

This is achieved by developing a mathematical model which predicts the revenue generated by a given strategy.It is shown that although the model is nonlinear, a transformation can be made to enable optimisation by linear programming.