вырашивать скот.
English translation: to raise cattle/poultry
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| 14:01 Apr 24, 2005 |
| Russian to English translations [PRO] Livestock / Animal Husbandry | |||||||
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| 4 +13 | raise chickens |
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| 4 +2 | Well, the only thing I can testify to... |
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| 4 | I would write "raise" (о животных) |
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| 3 +1 | raise livestock |
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| 4 | breed |
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| вырашивать скот. I would write "raise" (о животных) Explanation: I would write "raise" (о животных) |
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13 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2| вырашивать скот. Well, the only thing I can testify to... Explanation: ...is that "rearing poultry" is quite all right and is used in the literature. To illustrate the point, I'll quote a passage from Measuring and Auditing Broiler Welfare by Claire Weeks (Cambridge, MA, USA, 2004, p 258-9) (here the chickens are both "raised" and "reared"): ==================== Small-scale Poultry Rearing Whilst industrial-style farming is behind the phenomenal surge in poultry production worldwide, the raising of small flocks of chickens still plays a key role in the survival of many farmers in the developing world. Some 80% of farmers in Asia and Africa raise small flocks of chickens (Garces, 2002). Small, community-level farms are often important in maintaining rural livelihoods and local food security. As industrial chicken-rearing methods are adopted around the world, the animal welfare concerns are typically replicated. Fast-growing genetic strains of bird, with their attendant propensity to poor leg health and cardiovascular problems, are usually reared in large numbers at high stocking densities. These technically sophisticated, low-labour techniques can also threaten rural livelihoods and local food security. In East and South-east Asia, for example, industrial agriculture has been increasing, with greater use of machinery, chemical fertilizer and financial services, such as foreign loans. There has been a consequent shift from small-scale rearing of ruminant animals to the industrial production of pigs and poultry. As developing countries adopt mechanized livestock rearing, there is a parallel shift away from self-sufficiency towards a dependency on imports. Local food security can be threatened as a result. As Garces (2002) puts it, Grains, tractors, oil to fuel the tractors, fertilizers and special animal units and processors are all needed for intensive livestock rearing, none of which a developing country starts out by making itself. Asia now imports large amounts of grain to feed its factory-farmed animals. It is tempting to believe that intensive farming needs less land to produce food for humans and animals. Yet intensive chicken production requires plentiful supplies of grain to feed to the birds. The result is that crop farming often becomes intensive, involving the use of large amounts of chemicals, such as fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides and fungicides. This has been linked to the loss of soil fertility and farmland wildlife. In the Philippines, for example, a serious consequence of the rise in intensive animal production has been the diversion of imported grain for human consumption to feed farm animals rather than people. A recent report on livestock development published by the World Bank comments that the ‘shift to more grain-based production could seriously affect global and national food security’ (de Haan et al., 2001). ========== |
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3 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +13
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