Table 2 Basic characteristics of the six production clusters identified

1

40

20%

Small sedentary

Small sedentary farms using mostly village pasture and having the highest reliance on supplements in winter, including purchased concentrate.

2

56

28%

Medium mobile

Medium farms with high mobility and access to pastures. Provide less fodder per head than other medium operations (3 and 4), mostly in the form of self-produced roughage. Many use off-village pasture all year.

3

25

13%

Medium fodder purchaser

Medium farms with almost no access to arable land, providing large amounts of purchased supplements. Cover a wide range of pasture use and mobility types, but the majority use off-village summer pasture only.

4

32

16%

Medium fodder producer

Medium farms with the highest mean cropland areas and volume of concentrate provided per animal. This group has a range of pasture use and mobility, but the majority use off-village pasture in summer pasture only.

5

27

14%

Large mobile fodder purchaser

Large mobile extensive operation using both off-village winter and summer pastures and providing mostly poor-quality roughage (natural hay) in winter, much of which is purchased.

6

20

10%

Large mobile fodder producer

Large mobile operation using both remote winter and summer pastures, with access to cropland and provision of high-quality self-produced fodder in relatively small quantities.