Pasture Agronomic Practices and Sustainable Intensive Grazing Management

A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Farm Animal Production".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 23

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Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
Interests: tropical grass; napiergrass; maize cropping; grazing; fall armyworm

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Guest Editor
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki 889-2192, Japan
Interests: tropical forage legume; arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; grass-legume mixture; silage; grassland management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

To increase the forage self-sufficiency ratio for livestock and poultry production is the urgent matter by improving crop production, utilization of forage resources, and intensive grazing management. Under the monsoonal humid climate in East and Southeast Asian countries, instead of hay processing, silage processing of forages and crop residues and intensive grazing management in arable lands are the principal solutions for sustainable pasture management.

The aim of this Special Issue is to gather actual practices and knowledge by demonstrating new findings in the field of silage processing, pasture and grazing management, as well as techniques facilitated for tropical and subtropical pasture management. Our wish is to encourage authors of this multi-disciplinary field of research to share their knowledge with the global scientific community and to elucidate potential problems and questions that need to be addressed in the future.

Prof. Dr. Yasuyuki Ishii
Prof. Dr. Manabu Tobisa
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • pasture agronomy
  • tropical grass
  • fodder legume
  • crop residue
  • intensive grazing
  • introduction of new forage

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