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Estimation of Carrying Capacity of Livestock Farm Based on Maximum Phosphorus Load of Farmland and GIS Spatial Analysis Technology


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1 Department of Geography, Minjiang University, Fuzhou, 350108, China
2 College of Telecommunications and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China
3 Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China
 

To avoid the environmental pollution caused by livestock manure and provide rational layout of livestock farm, we estimated the livestock manure phosphorus load by the excretion coefficient method and have developed a livestock manure nutrient distribution model. The livestock manure phosphorus was distributed to farmlands using this model and spatial analysis technology. The carrying capacity of livestock farms was calculated based on the maximum livestock manure phosphorus carrying capacity of farmlands and expressed in pig for the Shangjie town, China. The results showed that the maximum, minimum, average and total livestock manure phosphorus carrying capacity of farmlands was about 55.97, 0.74, 12.21 and 13,382.90 kg respectively, and the total load of 2854.79 kg manure phosphorus from livestock farms surpassed the carrying capacity of farmlands in Shangjie town in 2011. The results also demonstrated that the maximum, minimum, average and the total carrying capacity of livestock farms was respectively, 792, 10, 157 and 9128 pigs. Most of the livestock farms in the town had carrying capacity of less than 300 pigs and only six farms had carrying capacity of livestock more than 500 pigs. The results could provide decision support for the spatial layout of livestock farms, controlling environmental pollution caused by livestock manure.

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Carrying Capacity, Farmlands, Livestock Manure, Phosphorus Load.
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Authors

Bojie Yan
Department of Geography, Minjiang University, Fuzhou, 350108, China
Jingjie Yan
College of Telecommunications and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China
Wenjiao Shi
Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China

Abstract


To avoid the environmental pollution caused by livestock manure and provide rational layout of livestock farm, we estimated the livestock manure phosphorus load by the excretion coefficient method and have developed a livestock manure nutrient distribution model. The livestock manure phosphorus was distributed to farmlands using this model and spatial analysis technology. The carrying capacity of livestock farms was calculated based on the maximum livestock manure phosphorus carrying capacity of farmlands and expressed in pig for the Shangjie town, China. The results showed that the maximum, minimum, average and total livestock manure phosphorus carrying capacity of farmlands was about 55.97, 0.74, 12.21 and 13,382.90 kg respectively, and the total load of 2854.79 kg manure phosphorus from livestock farms surpassed the carrying capacity of farmlands in Shangjie town in 2011. The results also demonstrated that the maximum, minimum, average and the total carrying capacity of livestock farms was respectively, 792, 10, 157 and 9128 pigs. Most of the livestock farms in the town had carrying capacity of less than 300 pigs and only six farms had carrying capacity of livestock more than 500 pigs. The results could provide decision support for the spatial layout of livestock farms, controlling environmental pollution caused by livestock manure.

Keywords


Carrying Capacity, Farmlands, Livestock Manure, Phosphorus Load.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv112%2Fi09%2F1931-1936