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CATIE Centro Agronómico Tropical de Inves : The National Platform for Sustainable Livestock Production in Honduras has been made official
06/29/2021 | 03:25pm EDT
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With technical support from CATIE, the national institutions of the Honduran livestock sector create a governance body to promote sustainable livestock development in the country.
June 29, 2021.Cattle ranching is one of the main economic activities in Honduras, generating around 400,000 jobs annually, which represents approximately 33% of employment in the agricultural sector (1.2 million people) and 10% of total national employment (BCH, 2018). However, livestock farming in the country is characterized by extensive production systems, with high impact on the environment and low productivity, where about 100,000 farms occupy about 3 million hectares of pasture, with a cattle population of about 1.5 million head (INE 2008).