Appendix 2 Existing and projected grazing resources and productivity

Table 8 Existing and projected grazing resources after 15–20 years development (With improved livestock development services and support; positive market signals; non-limiting animal health status; and 50% adoptive farmers)

Current and future pasture types	System type	Current area ('000 ha)	Current carrying capacity (AU/ha in '000)	Current total carrying capacity (AUs)	Projected area in 15yrs ('000 ha)	Projected carrying capacity ('000s AU)	Current cattle growth (kg/hd/dy)	Projected cattle growth² (kg/hd/dy)	Current production index Col.3 × Col. 6	Projected production index Col.5 × Col. 7
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
FIJI
1) native mission grass < 1800 mm	open	124	0.5	63	62.5	31.3	0.3	0.3	19	9
2) native mission + legumes		0	0.63	0	37.5	23.6	0	0.45	0	11
3) native > 1800 mm		9	1.3	11.7	4.5	5.9	0.3	0.3	4	2
4) naturalised Nadi blue		24	1.0	24	12	12.0	0.35	0.35	8	4
5) naturalised Nadi + legumes		0	1.25	0	12	15.0	0	0.5	0	8
6) naturalised Batiki		12	1.5	18	3	4.5	0.25	0.25	5	1
7) naturalised Batiki + legumes		0	2.0	0	3	6.0	0	0.45	0	3
8) improved grass		5	1.6	8	0	0	0.4	0	3	0
9) improved grass + legumes		1	1.9	0	41.7	79.2	0.45	0.5	0	40
10) native > 1800 mm	under	26	0.7	18.2	18	12.6	0.25	0.25	5	3
11) improved grass + legume	coconuts	1	1.2	1.2	9	10.8	0.35	0.4	0	4
12) pastures with crops / forestry	other	1	1.0	1	11	11.0	0.4	0.4	0	4
13) crop residues / roadsides		95	1.2	114	70	105.0	0.3	0.5	34	53
14) upland crops to pastures			1.5	0	35	52.5	0	0.5	0	26
TOTAL		298		259.1	319.2	369.4			78	168
Current / new areas improved		144/35				CC × 1.43				Prod. × 2.14
NEW CALEDONIA
15) native < 1800 mm	open	160	0.4	64	75	30	0.3	0.3	19.2	9
16) native < 1800 mm + legumes		10	0.6	6	50	30	0.35	0.5	2.1	15
17) native < 1800 mm		3	1.5	4.5	1	1.5	0.35	0.35	1.6	0.5
18) native > 1800 mm + legumes		0	1.5	0	22	3	0	0.4	0	1.2
19) improved grass		32	1.2	38.4	0	0	0.4	0.4	15.4	0
20) improved grass + legume		10	1.5	15	82	123	0.55	0.6	8.3	73.8
21) native> 1800 mm	coconuts	3	1.2	3.6	3	3.6	0.3	0.3	1.1	1.1
22) pastures with crops / forestry	other	0	1	0	2	2	0.4	0.45	0	0.9
23) forage crops		2	2.5	5	5	12.5	0.4	0.45	2	5.6
TOTAL		220		136.5	220	205.6			49.6	107.1
Current/new areas improved		125.5/0				CC×1.83				Prod. × 2.09
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
24) native < 1800 mm (s/lholder)	open	75	0.3	22.5	174	52.3	0.25	0.3	5.6	15.7
25) native < 1800 mm - plantation		72	0.3	21.6	80	24	0.3	0.35	6.5	8.4
26) native < 1800 mm + legumes		2	0.5	1	51	25.5	0.45	0.5	0.5	12.8
27) native > 1800 mm	open	5	1.4	7	20	28	0.3	0.35	2.1	9.8
28) native > 1800 mm + legumes		2	1.7	3.4	10	17	0.5	0.55	1.7	9.4
29) improved grass		30	1.3	39	0	0	0.35	0.4	1.9	0
30) improved grass + legume		5	1.8	8	95.8	153.2	0.45	0.55	3.6	84.3
31) native > 1800 mm	under	9	0.7	6.3	15	10.5	0.3	0.3	1.9	3.2
32) improved grass + legume	coconuts	1	1.5	1.5	10	15	0.35	0.4	1.8	6
33) pastures with crops/forestry	other	2	0.7	1.4	10	7	0.4	0.4	0.6	2.8
TOTAL		203		111.7	332.5				49.4	185.5
Current / new areas improved		169/0			CC × 2.98					prod. × 4.27
SAMOA
34) native > 1800 mm	open	1	1	1	0.5	0.8	0.3	0.35	0.6	0.25
35) Batiki only 1		1.5	1.1	1.7	1	1.8	0.3	0.35	0.51	0.6
36) improved grass		1.5	2	3	0.5	1.8	0.35	0.4	1.05	0.72
37) improved grass + Batiki + legume		0.5	2.2	1.1	2.5	5.5	0.45	0.45	0.5	2.5
38) native > 1800 mm		1	0.8	0.8	0.5	0.4	0.25	0.30	0.2	0.12
39) Batiki	under	10	1.1	11	3	5.1	0.30	0.35	3.0	1.8
40) other improved grass	coconuts	1	1.2	1.2	0.5	0.9	0.35	0.40	0.4	0.14
41) improved grass + Batiki + legume		0.5	1.8	0.9	15	27	0.50	0.55	0.45	14.9
42) pastures in crops / forestry	other	0.2	1	0.2	0.5	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.24
TOTAL		17.2	20.5	20.9	24	43.9			6.81	21.27
Current / new areas improved		11.5/7				CC × 2.4				Prod. × 3.1
SOLOMON ISLANDS
43) native < 1800 mm	open	1	0.4	0.4	5	2	0.3	0.3	0.12	0.6
44) native < 1800 mm + legumes		0	0.8	0.8	2	1.2	0.4	0.5	0	0.6
45) native > 1800 mm		3	1.2	3.6	4	6	0.3	0.35	1.08	2.1
46) improved grass		1	1.5	1.5	0	0	0.4	0.4	0.6	0
47) improved grass / legumes		1	1.8	1.8	6	12	0.5	0.5	0.0	6
48) native > 1800 mm	under	8	0.7	5.6	8	5.6	0.28	0.3	1.6	1.9
49) improved grass / legumes	coconuts	3	1.1	3.3	5	6.5	0.35	0.4	1.2	2.6
50) pastures in crops / livestock	other	0.3	1	0.3	3	3	0.35	0.35	0.11	1.05
TOTAL		17.3		18.5	33	36.3			5.5	14.8
Current / new areas improved		6/7				CC × 2.2				Prod. × 2.85
TONGA
51) native < 1800 mm	open	0.2	1.2	0.24	0.2	0.24	0.35	0.35	0.08	0.08
52) native > 1800 mm		0.5	1.5	0.75	0	0	0.30	0.35	0.23	0
53) improved grass		0.3	1.8	0.54	0	0	0.35	0.4	0.19	0
54) improved grass / legume		0.2	2	0.4	1.5	3	0.45	0.55	0.18	1.65
55) native pasture	under	1	1.4	1.4	0	0	0.3	0.4	0.49	0
56) naturalised guinea grass	coconuts	3	1.8	5.4	1	1.8	0.36	0.36	1.94	0.65
57) Improved grass / legume		0.5	1.9	0.95	5	10	0.4	0.55	0.48	5.5
58) pure legume crops / forestry	other	0.1	1	0.1	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.04	0.12
TOTAL		5.8		10.04	8	14.84			3.63	8
Current / new areas improved over 15 yrs		3.5/2.2			CC × 1.48					Prod. × 2.2
VANUATU
59) native < 1800 mm	open	3	1.2	3.6	2	2.4	0.4	0.4	1.44	0.98
60) native < 1800 mm + legumes		1	1.5	1.5	2	3	0.5	0.55	0.75	1.65
61) native > 1800 mm open		10	1.6	16	5	8	0.35	0.35	5.60	2.8
62) native > 1800 mm mainly open + legumes		1	0.9	0.9	5	4.5	0.45	0.5	0.41	2.25
63) open impr. grass incl. buffalo - low legume		10	1.8	18	0	0	0.4	0.4	7.20	0
64) improved grass / legume		25	2	50	62.5	156.25	0.5	0.55	25	85.9
65) native > 1800 mm	under	27	0.7	18.9	22	15.4	0.35	0.35	6.62	5.39
66) buffalo / impr.grass / legume	coconuts	18	1.1	19.8	18	19.8	0.4	0.4	7.92	7.92
67) pasture crops / forestry / regrowth forest	other	10	1.2	12	7.5	9	0.45	0.5	5.4	4.5
TOTAL		105		140.7	124	218.35			60.33	111.4
Current / new areas improved over 15 yrs		25/25				CC × 1.51				Prod. × 1.8
GRAND TOTALS		867		737	1194	1320			253	614
Total current / new areas improved		485/76
Regional improvement						CC × 1.8				Prod. × 2.48

Table 8 Summary of additional areas

Total additional area (ha)	327 000
native grasslands	227 000
under coconuts	20 000
croplands to pastures	35 000
bush regrowth	25 000
pastures in crops/forestry	20 000

Notes

Carrying capacity reduced due to current gross weed infestations of most pastures (e.g. 50%).
Improvements in growth within a particular class without pasture improvement reflect better husbandry and supplementary feeding.

Table 9 Current and projected broad regional grazing resource groups over a 15–20 year period

Grazing resource	Current (ha)	After 15–20 yrs (ha)	Change (ha)
*Open*
native grassland	467.7	433.7
native grassland with legumes	15.5	157
introduced grasses	116	15.5
introduced grasses + legumes	43	309.7
crop residues/roadsides	95	70
forage crops	2	5
croplands converted to improved pastures	0	35
Total	739	1026	+287
*Under coconuts*
native grassland	76	66.5
native grassland + legumes	0.5	2.5
introduced grass	12	5
introduced grass + legumes	25	60
Total	114	134	+20
*Crops and forestry*
pure legumes integrated with crops and legumes and/or grasses integrated with forestry	13.6	34.3
Total (rounded nearest thousand)	14	34	+20
Grand total	867	1194	+327