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Livestock Housing and Manure Storage Need to Be Improved in China

First Author: Zhaohai Bai, Xiaoxin Li, Jie Lu, Xuan Wang, Gerard L. Velthof, , Jiafa Luo, Stewart Ledgard, Zhiguo Wu, Shuqin Jin, Oene Oenema, Lin Ma and Chunsheng Hu
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Page Number: pp 8212–8214
Issue: 51 (15)
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PubYear: 2017
Volume: 2017
Publication Name: Environ. Sci. Technol
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b02672
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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.

This article firstly analyzed the current polices related to manure management, and the nitrogen losses from livestock housing and storage. And then, the author gives the implications for research and application
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