Intensive Systems for Beef Production in the Tropics

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The demand for red meat is rising rapidly throughout the world due both to increased human population and to shifts in the food buying habits in urban centers (FAO, 1973). This trend holds for all countries. With economic development, the ratio of purchasing starch foods to non-starchy foods has declined with a rise in consumption of vegetables and animal products (Perera et al., 1972). Although the starchy staple to non-starchy ratio has remained at about 56:44 in Egypt as a whole since the mid 1960's, the ratio for the city of Cairo has shifted to 51:49. This change in food habits has contributed to Egypt's current importation of 158,000 tons meat per year. Since 1970 importations of beef to Venezuela have increased about 10,000 tons per year. Of this, 95% goes to the large urban centers (Consejo de Bienestar Rural, 1972). In Japan per capita consumption of rice declined from 140 kg in 1955 to 117 kg in 1969. Copyright © 1975. American Society of Animal Science . Copyright 1975 by American Society of Animal Science.

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