Preserving food for cattle with reducing environmental impacts in the mesoregion Southern Maranhão, Brazil

Abstract

The silage, or even the recently and preserving food is practiced due to the occurrence of climatic diversity, in which carries the visible manifestation of fall in rural production, mainly of cattle in extensive system, in the growth phase, when there is a prolonged dry period. The use of silage becomes convenient and many breeders depend on silage practice, because using this valid and effective technique, the income achieved brings advantageous in creating profits. When it comes to informational factors, research guidance to farmers in need of information about green matter silage, aiming at greater productivity about promoting better performance in double cattle fitness, being at the stage of fattening, recreates the most important moment of the cattle industry, without environmental impact. The ideal development of research in the field, as an extensive work that proposes this project would be to inform and direct rural producers in southern Maranhão, the advantage of diffusion of information disclosure through techniques geared to rural communities like transmission and spread of silage without environmental momentum. Were selected 17 rural properties from Maranhão South mesoregion, for guidance to ranchers on silage of green matter. The expected results were of great value, as the inform and direct to farmers of the diffusion of information through techniques geared to rural communities, such as transmission and spread of silage without haste. All producers met in the project corresponded to the silage technique application in the region.