New form of grazing prevents spread of fires (with video)
In Vila Pouca de Aguiar, a fire prevention project that uses goats to control vegetation. The system has nothing innovative, but has now been rediscovered at a time where, ironically, there are fewer and fewer goats."Formerly there was so many fires because, in a village like ours, all the houses had herds. Nothing burned. The cattle and goats clean up the land, "explained to the green economy pastor Francisco Beetle.Francisco follows today, to the letter, the rules of a new form of grazing, explained by Henrique Pereira dos Santos, Manager of a directed grazing project."In traditional grazing for a limited area which is pastored steadily throughout the year, with headers of a goat and a half per hectare. [Grazing directed] may have some 800 goats per hectare, but for a period of three or four days, "said the Manager.With this new form of grazing, soil is fertilized with the excrement of animals and vegetation blows harder. The aim is to create many of these areas, which act as a buffer and allow the spread of flame control.See the episode 121 of the green economy.
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