Cubans work on year-round animal feed.Experts at Havana's Cuban Institute of Animal Science are developing a pasture pasture, land used for grazing livestock. Land unsuited for cultivation, e.g., hilly or stony land, may be used as pasture. Tilled land and meadow may be pastured after the crops are removed. to feed cattle year-round, even during the dry season. Known as CT-115, the new pasture comes from king grass, a plant widely used to feed cattle. Researchers say this process save important amounts of industrial feed. Consumption of the new biotech bi·o·tech n. Informal Biotechnology. biotech Noun short for biotechnology Noun 1. pasture could boost milk production by 3,000 liters annually. Some 35,000 hectares of land have been planted with CT-115 in fenced areas, so as to alternately al·ter·nate v. al·ter·nat·ed, al·ter·nat·ing, al·ter·nates v.intr. 1. a. To occur in a successive manner: day alternating with night. b. rotate herds of cattle in order to keep the pasture permanently growing. One of the cattle-raising companies using the new pasture in Havana Havana (həvăn`ə), Span. La Habana (lä ävä`nä), city (1997 est. pop. 2,200,000), capital of both Cuba and of Ciudad de la Habana prov. has reported a production of 655 liters a day after milking 76 cows; that translates into 8.6 liters per cow. |
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