🇧🇴 The cattle breeds of Bolivia
1 breed from Bolivia, best known first.
Bolivia farms chiefly in crops: potatoes and quinoa on the high Andean plains, soybeans, maize, rice and sugarcane on the warm eastern lowlands. Cattle play a small part in its farming; the nearest links to livestock are fodder grain and feed mills, and the grazing animals put forward for mending worn soils are llamas.
- Forty private animal-feed plants buy half of Bolivia's yearly corn harvest
- About one tenth of highland barley is kept on the farm as animal fodder
- Grazing animals such as llamas are proposed to protect worn altiplano soils
- Quinoa needs land above 2,000 metres and shrugs off drought and cold
- Farming employed about 46% of Bolivia's labour force in 1987
Cattle in Bolivia
Bolivian farming leans on crops rather than herds. In the high Andean plains, the altiplano, families have grown potatoes since before the Inca era, together with quinoa, a grain that needs land above 2,000 metres, and barley suited to high ground. The warm eastern lowlands around Santa Cruz hold the bigger commercial farms, where soybeans, maize, rice and sugarcane lead. Cattle play a small part in the country's farming. The grazing animals put to work on tired quinoa soils are llamas, not cattle. Even so, stock feed matters to the crop economy: forty private feed mills buy half of the yearly corn harvest, and about a tenth of highland barley stays on the farm as animal fodder. Growers of every size struggle with poor roads, scarce credit and repeated droughts and floods.
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