Zusammenfassung der Ressource
PASTORAL FARMING IN ARGENTINA...
- incl. COMMERCIAL REARING LIVESTOCK
- CATTLE
- GOAT
- SHEEP
- for MILK, MEAT, WOOL
,HIDES
- AREAS OF PASTORAL FARMING
- SHEEP
- THRIVED IN COOL & DRY WEST
- SHEEP REARING
- IN COOL & DRY REGIONS OF FOOTHILLS
OF ANDES & PATAGONIAN PLATEAUS
- PASTURES ARE POORER WITH
SHORT, COARSE GRASS
- BEEF
- RAISED IN PAMPAS,
TEMPERATE GRASSLANDS
& FINEST GRAZING
GROUNDS
- DAIRY CATTLE
- RAISED IN PAMPAS
- PARTICULARLY IN BUENOS AIRES
- CATTLE
- REARED IN WARM &
WET AREAS IN EAST
- PAMPAS
- MILD CLIMATE
- FAVOURABLE
CONDITIONS FOR CATTLE
REARING
- TREELESS
- FERTILE SOIL
- LAND SOWN WITH ALFAFA
- MAIN FODDER FOR CATTLE
- LUXURIANT & NUTRITIOUS
- CATTLE GETS FATTENED QUICKLY
- RAINFALL YEAR ROUND
- RAINFALL IF
LESS..WATER GIVEN
THROUGH WELLS AND
WIND PUMPS
- MODERATE TEMP.
- MAIZE,OATS RYE ALSO GROWN
- ESTANCIAS
- CATTLE REARED ON LARGE
FARMS WHICH HAVE
EXTENSIVE AREAS (+10000
HECTARES) IS ESTANCIAS
Anmerkungen:
- BOUNDRIES
FENCED WITH
BARBED WIRES
- SUB DIVIDED TO PADDOCKS
- SMALLER YARD CALLED CORRAL
- CATTLE SORTED & BRANDED
- MANAGED LIKE FACTORY
- HAS GENERAL MANAGER
(OVERALL SUPERVISOR)
- DEPARTMENTAL MANAGER
- FODDER
- MILK PRODUCTION
- CULTIVATION
- WATER SUPPLY
- MACHINERY
- BEEF PRODOCTION
- MEDICAL FACILITIES
- SHELTER BELTS
- SELF-CONTAINED UNITS
- HOUSES FOR OWNERS,MANAGERS AND WORKERS
- COTTAGES OF
WORKERS
HAVE SMALL
PLOTS WHERE
THEY GROW
FRUITS
&VEGETABLES
OR RAISE PIGS
& POULTRY
- THERE R ALSO
STOREHOUSES,
FARMS, STABLES,
WATER SUPPLY
SYSTEM, POWER
STATION, MACHINE
SHOPS ETC..
- VETINARY DOCTORS TAKE CARE OF ANIMALS.
- GAUCHOS
- ARE THE COWBOYS
- DUTY IS TO HERD CATTLE YEAR ROUND
- EXCELLENT HORSEMEN
- DRIVE ON HORSE BACK LOOKING
AFTER AND DRIVING CATTLE
- MIXED RACE OF EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN INDIAN
- WEAR LEATHER JACKETS,PANTS,LONG BOOTS,TRIANGULAR
WOOLEN CAP CALLED PONCHO WORN(PROTECTION FROM
COLD) & BROAD BRIMMED JACKETS(SOMBREROS)
- ROUNDING UP CATTLE THEY USE LASSO(LONG ROPE WITH
NOOSE ,THROWN AROUND HORNS OR NECKS OF CATTLE)
- BOLA(ROPE WITH ROUND
STONE TIED)USED TO BRING
RUNNING CATTLESTO
GROUND
- CATTLE CONSTANTLY ON MOVE
TO AVOID OVER GRAZING.
- IN SUMMER TAKEN TO
MOUNTAIN PASTURES
- IN WINTER TAKEN TO LOWER SLOPES OF MOUNTAINS
- PRODUCTS OF PASTORAL FARMING
- GREAT CARE TAKEN TO REAR
HIGH QUALITY BEEF CATTLE
- FATTENED AND TAKEN BY TRAINS TO
SLAUGHTER HOUSES OR FRIGORIFICOS
- CATTLE KILLED & BEEF FROZEN.
- TRADE
- ROSARIO,BAHIA BLANCA & CORDOBA IMP.
MEAT PACKING & EXPORTING CENTRES
- MAIN BUYERS R EUROPEAN
COUNTRIES (MOSTLY
GERMANY) AND GULF
COUNTRIES.