Eurytania is a mountainous prefecture as 54% of its area has altitudes over 1000m. The total area of Eurytania is 186.940 Ha, 9.060 of which is agricultural land, 82.200 Ha forests and 76.000 Ha rangelands. Generally, Eurytania can be characterized as a livestock husbandry prefecture due to the physiography of the area and the existing rangelands. Livestock husbandry has a major economic interest as in many productive units it may improve to the low income of the farmers.
Mountainous rangelands of the Prefecture of Eurytania
Abstract
- Authors
- Α. Pantera1, G. Karageorgos2, P. Loukas3and J. Fakas4
- Affiliation
- 1 Τ.Ε.Ι. Lamias, Forestry Department, 361 00 Karpenissi, Greece 2 Forest Service of Eurytania, 361 00 Karpenissi, Greece 3 Agricultural Service of Eurytania, 361 00 Karpenissi, Greece 4 Forest Service of Eurytania, 361 00 Karpenissi, Greece
- Keywords
- Eurytania, rangelands, problems, present condition
- Proceedings
- RANGE SCIENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS – Proceedings of the 3rd Panhellenic Rangeland Congress in Karpenissi, 4-6 September 2002 (Edited by: Panagiotis D. Platis, Athanasios I. Sfougaris, Thomas G. Papachristou, Alexandrow G. Tsiontsis)
- Congress
- RANGE SCIENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS