M. Shimojo et al., Basic avoidance of food competition among ruminants, non-ruminants and humans - A simple analytic description, J FAC AGR K, 44(3-4), 2000, pp. 293-297
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Agriculture/Agronomy
Journal title
JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE KYUSHU UNIVERSITY
The present study suggested a simple analytic description of the basic avoi
dance of food competition among ruminants, non-ruminants and humans when it
was based on the production of forages, grain crops for human consumption
and extra grain crops as animal feeds. The results obtained were as follows
. (1) Humans depended basically on the plant production for the raw materia
ls of foods, where harvest index of total grain crops, the proportion of gr
ain crop production for human consumption to total grain crop production an
d the production ratio between forages and total grain crops were essential
factors. (2) Forages and straws from both grain crops and extra grain crop
s were used as ruminant feeds. (3) Extra grains were used as a non-ruminant
feed. (4) Grains and animal protein from both ruminants and non-ruminants
were used for human consumption. The results (1), (2), (3) and (4) supporte
d the human life.