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The area devoted to grasslands in Latin America in 1967 consisted of 446 million hectares, accounting for 79.9% of the agricultural land available (1). However, the ratio of man to bovines, formerly 1:1, has decreased in recent years because of the growth in human population, and will continue to diminish if adequate measures are not taken to stimulate livestock production (2).
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Fonseca, H. (1976). The Role of Ruminants in Tropical America. In: Scrimshaw, N.S., Béhar, M. (eds) Nutrition and Agricultural Development. Basic Life Sciences, vol 7. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2883-4_32
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