From Mauricio.Rosales@fao.org Fri Jul  6 20:13:09 2001
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:53:12 +0200
From: "Rosales, Mauricio (AGAL)" 
To: "'LEAD-AWI-ECONF-L@mailserv.fao.org'"
    
Subject: LEAD-AWI-ECONF-L:Comments from Robert  McCroskey on Nutient Manag
    ement Paper

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ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE ON AREA WIDE INTEGRATION OF CROP AND
LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION
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Robert   McCroskey   is  strongly  against  forcing/persuading
intensive  livestock farmers to find a suitable use for  their
manure.  Instead, he suggests that a demand  for  manure  from
crop  producers should be created. In the AWI project  regions
in Thailand and China a market exists for solid manure but not
for  liquid manure. Do We invite participants to inform us  of
experience  in  developing  countries  where  a  market/demand
exists for liquid manure. We also invite participants to react
to  the  issue  how far the driving force for  regulations  on
environmental  impacts from livestock production  can  be  the
question what burden can be imposed on the livestock farmers.

Moderators

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From: Robert McCroskey, bobmc@uniserve.com

I  strongly  disagree with Dr. Sven Sommer on the  concept  of
forcing/persuading the intensive livestock farmer  to  find  a
suitable use of the manure. The farmer is already VERY BUSY in
his/her  specialized  work, and is already  at  the  mercy  of
certain uncontrollable factors such as weather, climate,  feed
price, etc..

Yes the concept of overall planning must be expanded on. I can
think of one huge successful industrial park, where a producer
of  chlorine, a producer of PVC plastic and one of refrigerant
and  teflon  are sitting side by side. The same  planning  and
product streaming should be done in an agricultural production
park.

The  planning and regulatory climate must be set up so that  a
demand is created for the manure in preference to manufactured
fertilizer; a user of manure should be encouraged  to  set  up
beside or near the manure producer if possible, otherwise bulk
handling of the materials is needed.

If  adequate  demand is created for the manure, users  of  the
manure will be coming to the farmer asking for it, instead  of
placing yet another regulatory burden on the farmers,  but  of
course,  the  farmer must meet certain storage and containment
requirements.

Robert McCroskey
Canadian Centre for Rabbit Production Development (NGO)
Surrey, BC, Canada