Livestock Housing and Manure Storage Need to Be Improved in China

Zhaohai Bai, Xiaoxin Li, Jie Lu, Xuan Wang, Gerard L. Velthof, David Chadwick, Jiafa Luo, Stewart Ledgard, Zhiguo Wu, Shuqin Jin, Oene Oenema, Lin Ma*, Chunsheng Hu

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

China has significantly increased its production and per capita consumption of animal-derived food. However, many livestock farms in China are industrialized and landless, and have poor animal manure management. As a result, losses of nutrients to the environment are large. These losses can cause severe pollution of (i) air, via ammonia (NH3) emissions that contribute to smog and (ii) water, via direct discharge of manure to watercourses and leaching of nitrate (NO3–), causing eutrophication and increasing nitrate accumulation in drinking water.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)8212-8214
Number of pages3
JournalEnvironmental Science and Technology
Volume51
Issue number15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jul 2017

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