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Impact of Milk Collection Centers on Dairy Production System in the Newly Reclaimed Area of Nubaria

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This study was implemented to investigate the effect of Milk Collection Centers, MCC, as a major intervention affecting milk production system. Four villages were selected in the Nubaria area; two of which have collection centers and the other did not. A hundred farmers from the 4 villages (25 each) was randomly selected and interviewed and information was collected in a semi-structured questionnaire. Results indicated the significant impacts on different parameters of the system including production resources (number of paid labor and their salaries, more land holding areas, cropping pattern and herd structure). Farmers in villages with MCC tend to increase area cultivated with forages for providing animal feeds and prefer of keeping more buffalo, as their fat-rich whit milk is customer-preferred. Framers in villages with MCC pay more attention to the feeding of their animals e.g. giving more concentrates and silage, as well as to producing cleaner milk utilizing machine milking and practice milking in separate places out of barns. These practices are paid off in terms of increasing milk productivity and price of milk, and therefore the total income from dairy production. Paralally farmers also targeted genetic improvement practices, i.e. utilization of AI, instead of natural mating. These findings indicate the need of spreading the MCC over all villages in the reclaimed area, as well as, old delta lands, in order to improve the dairy production system and increasing farm income. In spite of the fact that the studied villages have been assumed to be for newly graduates, the majority of interviewed farmers were not graduates; rather they were old farmers from the delta who purchased those lands from the graduates. This situation of graduates selling their lands, instead of settling needs more investigation to identify reasons behind and means of solving such a problem.

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10.21608/jappmu.2017.45845

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dairy production system, newly reclaimed land, Milk Collection Centers

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Sahar

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Abd-Elrahaeim

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A.

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Animal Production Research Ins‌titute

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sahar_2007@hotmail.com

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Dalia

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Yassin

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Agricultural Economics Research Center

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8

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7

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7097

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2017-07-01

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2019-08-26

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2017-07-01

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179

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185

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2090-3642

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2090-3723

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876

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Journal of Animal and Poultry Production

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https://jappmu.journals.ekb.eg/

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Impact of Milk Collection Centers on Dairy Production System in the Newly Reclaimed Area of Nubaria

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22 Jan 2023