Decision-making on the use of diverse combinations of agricultural products and natural plants in pig feed: a case study of native pig smallholder in northern Thailand |
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Authors: | Shinsuke Nakai |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Biosystems Science, School of Advanced Sciences, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Shonankokusai-Village, Hayama Kanagawa, 240-0193, Japan |
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Abstract: | We have identified the feed offered to native pigs in a case study of smallholder in northern Thailand. We examined the types
and fresh weights of pig feed over two 10-day periods in household A, in September 2006 (rainy season) and in December 2006
and January 2007 (dry season). The study results are as follows. (1) They offered 18 types of feed in total during the rainy
and dry seasons, of which seven types were common to the rainy and dry seasons, five types were offered during the rainy season
only, and six types during the dry season only. (2) They offered agricultural products as 34% of feed (rainy season) and 61%
of feed (dry season), and natural plants used exclusively for pig feed as 66% of feed (rainy season) and 39% of feed (dry
season). (3) The feed combinations at each feeding time differed 80% of the time during both the rainy and dry seasons. These
results show not only that they offered diverse combinations of agricultural products and natural plants as pig feed, but
also that they changed feed kinds in both the rainy and dry seasons. |
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Keywords: | Pig feed Decision-making Agricultural products and natural plants Diverse combinations Hmong in northern Thailand |
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