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ReviewTropical animal health and production2021

Water buffalo production in the Brazilian Amazon Basin: a review.

Jamile Andréa Rodrigues da Silva, Alexandre Rossetto Garcia, André Martinho de Almeida, Andréia Santana Bezerra, José de Brito Lourenço Junior

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Review in Tropical animal health and production, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  9. Mineral Content of Liver of Buffaloes (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Jamile Andréa Rodrigues da SilvaUniversidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, Instituto de Saúde e Produção Animal, Belém, Pará, Brazil. jamileandrea@yahoo.com.br.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6400-6925
Alexandre Rossetto GarciaEmbrapa Pecuária Sudeste, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3354-1474
André Martinho de AlmeidaUniversidade de Lisboa, LEAF, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Lisboa, Portugal.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7810-3988
Andréia Santana BezerraUniversidade Federal do Pará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência Animal, Castanhal, Pará, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9611-3266
José de Brito Lourenço JuniorUniversidade Federal do Pará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência Animal, Castanhal, Pará, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6441-4577
Universidade Federal do Pará · BRBrazilian Agricultural Research Corporation · BRUniversidade Federal Rural da Amazônia · BRUniversity of Lisbon · PT

Funding

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Brazilian Amazon has witnessed, in the last decades, an increase in the water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) inventory, with interesting productivity results. As the Brazilian Amazon contains the main water buffalo population in the Americas, the aim of this work is to review its most relevant production systems and some peculiarities about meat and milk production in this territory. The opening section describes the Amazon Basin, the most common water buffalo breeds, a brief history of the local livestock farming beginning in 1644. Also, it presents how water buffaloes gradually replaced bovine herds, especially where the latter had a lower productive performance. The use of extensive or more intensified models is pointed out and the ecosystems in which buffaloes are raised are detailed since native or cultivated pastures can be used in floodplains or drylands. Buffalo raising is favored in the Amazon due to the climate, soil, genetic variability of forages, animal adaptability, and physical space. Thus, it is clear that buffaloes have a high potential for meat and milk production and are an alternative in the use of altered areas of the Amazon; and, in the recent past, the low profitability of buffalo farming in traditional production systems in the Amazon was the reason which made this activity economically unattractive. Most recent technologies as outdoor confinements and silvopastoral systems are pointed out as more suitable regarding land-use policies, and buffalo farming for meat and milk production fits perfectly in this context, with productivity and beneficial socioeconomic.

Indexed as

BuffaloesEcosystemAnimalsBrazilCattleLivestockMeatAmazon BasinLivestock technologiesSilvopastoral systemSustainable food productionWater buffalo farming

Identifiers

PMID34089415
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Registered trials

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