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The cattle breed Mirandesa has its origin from the region of Trás‐os‐Montes more
specifically, in the Cold Mountain lands and in the Mirandês Plateau. These two
geographical areas have conditioned two agricultural systems which integrate the
Mirandesa breed bovines, mainly due to weather conditions. The first is characterised
by heavier rainfall (over 800/1000 mm), where permanent irrigated pastures
predominate. In the Mirandês Plateau, where the rainfall is lower (under 600/800mm),
non‐irrigated meadows are more frequent. In previous studies two cattle management
systems in these mountain areas were identified. One, the traditional, is associated
mainly to older farmers, with small herds, on which the cows feed mainly on natural
pastures. Cows are conducted daily to the pastures and spend the night in traditional
cowsheds located around the farmers' houses. Calves remain all day in the calf sheds
until weaning. The other management system of the Mirandesa cows is extensive
management. This is used by younger farmers who raise bovine herds of greater size
and chose to use extensive management, maintaining the animals always on the field.
In any of the mentioned management systems the objective of the farmers is the sale
of calves at weaning, at the approximate age of 7 months, when the meat can be
marketed as PDO (Protected Designation of Origin). The animal feeding comprises
natural pastures which are complemented with various forage crops. This
communication intends to highlight and discus the major constraints of these two
systems from a technical, social and economic point of view. Will also be shown the
solutions found in order to overcome these constraints that have permitted the
maintenance of this production clearly typical of these mountain areas.
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Mirandesa cattle breed Production management systems
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Nobre, Sílvia (2016). Raising the local cattle breed Mirandesa in Trás‐os‐Montes mountain areas: traditional versus new production management systems. In I International Conference on Research for Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions: book of abstracts. Bragança: Instituto Politécnico. ISBN 978-972-745-214-9
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Instituto Politécnico de Bragança