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2011-05-07

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Santacoloma Varón, L. E. (2011). Diets in methane emissions during rumination process in cattle production systems. Revista De Investigación Agraria Y Ambiental, 2(1), 55-64. https://doi.org/10.22490/21456453.913
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Diets in methane emissions during rumination process in cattle production systems

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22490/21456453.913
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Artículos de Investigación
Luz Elena Santacoloma Varón Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (UNAD) Escuela de Ciencias Agrícolas Pecuarias y del Medio Ambiente (ECAPMA) Sede Nacional José Celestino Mutis, Bogotá, Colombia

The population of ruminants in the world is increasing, since its products constitute a source of protein of high nutritional value for the human population; nevertheless, this increase, will contribute in great proportion to the global warming and to the deterioration of the ozone layer, since between the subproducts of the ruminal fermentation, carbonic gas and methane are found. &e last one is produced by the anaerobic bacteria present in the rumen that di'erent types of substrata use, principally H2 and CO2. &e action of the bacteria producers of methane depends to a great extent on the type of substrata presented in the diet, and of the chemical and physical characteristics of the same one. &erefore, it is possible to diminish the e'ects that the productive systems of ruminants have on the environment, o'ering the animals nutritional alternatives that besides reducing the emission of methane to the atmosphere, will also reduce the energetic losses that for this concept it presents in the ruminants. In the present review the idea of using forages of the tropic that contain secondary metabolics that could concern the population of protozoan’s combined with forages of high nutritional value is presented and the idea of obtaining very good proved productive results is possible to simultaneously diminishes the gas emission of methane to the atmosphere