NEW ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT MODELS IN QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE PRODUCTION IN SHEEP

Abstract

Due to the high demand on the market of ecological products obtained from sheep exploited in different production systems, it was found that the zootechnical sector is responsible for 13.00% of global greenhouse gas emissions, 15.05% of the total use of groundwater, and 12.60% of water pollution. The quantification of the impact of obtaining the quantitative products from the zootechnical sector, in particular, and of the growth and exploitation of sheep, in particular, has considerable effects on the biodiversity of meadow ecosystems and plant resources and have equal shares of the impact of land conversion into pastures and cultivated lands to produce green mass and hay for sheep feed. Given these desiderata, it is necessary to diversify the methods of obtaining quantitative and qualitative productions from the sheep, an important role being that of the management models according to the degree of land availability, avoiding environmental risks for sustainable development. The purpose of the research involves to find viable solutions in predicting the quantitative and qualitative productions obtained from sheep, by proposing for implementation new ecological management models that would contribute to obtaining large quantitative and quality productions by increasing individual productions through nutritional stimulation and not by increasing the number of sheep exploited per unit area, reducing the environmental impact of sheep production, efficiently managing water reserves, preserving biodiversity, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing the responsibility of "environmental" departments by monitoring natural environmental factors and the impact of resource use depending on the season.