Obiettivo The objective of the programme is to complete the data bank created by the International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) by implementing a laboratory network that will assure the coherence among the teams from the North and South countries of the EEC to the purpose of standardizing and, if possible, improving the estimation methods of the nutritional value of feeds for livestock, taking into account the particularities of the composition of the plants produced in the Mediterranean climate. The object was to increase the data bank of the nutritional value of livestock feeds, which had already been created by the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM). The feeding value of forages and plant byproducts were studied; 12 woody species were covered in Greece and 9 forage species in Italy. An inventory was made of forage resources of arid zones of southeastern Spain and 52 forage species were selected. A technique has been established which allows the degradability of forages to be estimated and evaluation of their content in terms of soluble fractions, degradable insoluble fractions and nondegradable insoluble fractions, in comparison with a gas production method (in vitro) and the in sacco method (in vivo). In order to harmonize methods, 2 analysis chains have been set up on feeds and foliages respectively.A deeper knowledge of the local food resources seems to be an important performing element to improve productions of the Mediterranean area and become independent from costly imports. A reliable data bank is an asset to decrease the profitability loss, with respect to highly productive livestock farms, in an area where livestock farming constitutes the only way to sustain the rural population, avoiding desertification and environment degradation (especially fires). After inventorying the Mediterranean forages and by- products, which nutritional value is not as yet well known although they are widely used in animal feeding, the different laboratories involved will carry out all necessary studies. The analyses chains and the experts meetings permit to reach an agreement on the reference methods adapted to the Mediterranean forages. Campo scientifico engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energynatural gasagricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagricultureindustrial cropsfodderagricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedomestic animalsanimal husbandryanimal feed Programma(i) FP2-CAMAR - Research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of competitiveness of agriculture and management of agricultural resources, 1989-1993 Argomento(i) Data not available Invito a presentare proposte Data not available Meccanismo di finanziamento Data not available Coordinatore CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE HAUTES ETUDES MEDITERRANEENNES Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Apartado 22 50080 ZARAGOZA Spagna Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato Partecipanti (7) Classifica in ordine alfabetico Classifica per Contributo UE Espandi tutto Riduci tutto Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki Grecia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Laboratory of Range Science 236 54006 THESSALONIKI Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas Spagna Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Professor Albareda 1 18008 GRANADA Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato Estacao Zootecnica Nacional Portogallo Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Fonte Boa Vale de Santarem 2000 SANTAREM Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) Francia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Centre de Theix 63122 Saint-Genès-Champanelle Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) Francia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo 2 place Pierre Viala 34060 Montpellier Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato Rowett Research Institute Regno Unito Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Greenburn Road Bucksburn AB2 9SB Aberdeen Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato Università degli Studi di Udine Italia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Via San Mauro 2 33010 Pagnacco Udine Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato
