Composición racial de los hatos ganaderos bovinos de El Carmen Manabí – Ecuador Racial composition of the cattle herds of El Carmen Manabí – Ecuador

Abstract

In Ecuador, 300 million pounds of meat are produced per year and 5'550,000 liters of milk per Iday with around 1,760,000 head of cattle. Manabi leads the production with approximately 40% of the national total. The dynamics of nationwide production revolve around races, whose origins are Britain, France and the United States. In Carmen, he leads the ignorance of the bovine breeds in cattle herds, the available information is poor, the figures are as varied as the institutions that provide them. Therefore, it was proposed to determine the racial composition of cattle herds in El Carmen, surveys were applied to cattle ranchers in these areas, the data were organized and tabulated in the Excel sheet, for descriptive statistical racial characterization. Brahman, Gyr, Angus and Nelore were found as beef cattle; Holstein, Jersey and Gyrholando as dairy cattle and Creole and Brown swiss as dual purpose cattle. The largest number of cattle (34133 heads, that is, 27.55%) corresponds to the mestizo of which the farmers do not know the origin of the parents.