Elita Aplocina

Latvia University of Agriculture | LLU · Faculty of Agriculture

Feeding livestock a balanced diet with a differentiated crude protein (CP) content, depending on the lactation phase can reduce nitrogen emissions from livestock excrement and urine. A higher content of non-starch polysaccharides in livestock diets improves feed absorption in the livestock body and, consequently, nitrogen is emitted more from prote...

Agricultural production is currently at a crossroads due to the need to balance the requirements of climate, biodiversity, air quality, and access to food health, farmers' incomes and economic conditions. These demands are often controversial, and the goals of policy makers are contradictory. Sustainability in agriculture needs to be put into pract...

A study on the effective using of field beans to Boer mother goats feeding was carried out on a farm whose main activity is the production of goat meat. Since the Boer goat breed is still very rare in Latvia, there is a lack of experience in the feeding of meat goat. Goat productivity was analyzed according to the birth weight of goat kids and kids...

The breeding and feeding of self produced pulses to livestock is one of the important directions of research for reducing the production costs of livestock products. Experiment on the effective using of the field beans to lambs for fattening was arranged in three replications using the Latvian Dark-headed breed male lambs. The mixture of concentrat...

The information for the present overview on manure management in different countries was primarily gathered through a survey using Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory reports. In Latvia, N2O emissions from manure management account for only 5 % of total N2O emissions. Dividing the N2O emissions by all livestock species, 75.9 % are produced by cattle, 12...

Based on the statistical data the situation of dairy farming in Latvia characterized by the feeding base and dry matter intake of dairy cows in herds and the effect on CH4 emissions were evaluated. The dairy farming in Latvia is fragmented with the majority of farms having a small number of cows. 79.5 % of all farms have only 1-5 cows, but the numb...

The milk of goats is mainly reserved for cheese making and therefore a quality evaluation of the milk is of fundamental importance. Goat milk composition is strongly influenced by goat nutrition, especially in highly productive animals. The feeding trial was carried out in organic goat farm for 135 days totally. The goal of our investigation was to...

Goat milk productivity depends mainly on the quantity and quality of feedstuffs. In this research is analyzed and discussed the influence of different feedstuffs on quantity and quality of goat milk. Analyzing of the 432 milk samples showed that the highest milk yields obtained by adding to basic ration of peas and Galega seeds -respectively 2.84 a...