{"id":276,"date":"2018-06-20T09:19:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T09:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/?p=276"},"modified":"2018-07-20T09:49:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T09:49:52","slug":"what-are-mixed-farming-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/2018\/06\/20\/what-are-mixed-farming-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"What are mixed farming systems?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed farming systems are systems in which crops and livestock are integrated on the same farm, they are also termed crop-livestock farming systems (Thornton and Herrero, 2014). In these systems, crops sustain livestock productivity by providing feed in a form of crop residues, while livestock provide inputs such as manure and traction for subsequent crops (Duncan et al., 2016).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/06\/MX-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignbottom size-large wp-image-302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/06\/MX-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/06\/MX.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed farming systems are systems in which crops and livestock are integrated on the same farm, they are also termed crop-livestock farming systems (Thornton and Herrero, 2014). In these systems, crops sustain livestock productivity by providing feed in a form of crop residues, while livestock provide inputs such as manure and traction for subsequent crops <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/2018\/06\/20\/what-are-mixed-farming-systems\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"What are mixed farming systems?\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mercy-fakude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}