Sistema de apoyo a la toma de decisiones para la selección de especies forrajeras (STDF) en función de la oferta ambiental en Colombia

Low food supply is a major problem affecting a large percentage of the livestock population in Colombia and is largely associated to inappropriate choice of forage species; and thus not well adapted to the environmental conditions of a specific region. To mitigate this problem, without incurring increasingcosts associated to changing environmental conditions,it is possible to match the adaptive capacity of species to the environment in which they grow. A decisionsupport system was developed to select suitable foragespecies for a given environment. The system is based onthe use of existing information about requirements of the species rather than specific experimentation. Fromthe information gathered, a database was generatedand implemented on ASP.NET in C # and SQL Serverdatabase. This system allows users to search and select pastures and forage species for specific soil and climatic conditions of a particular farm or region, through a user-friendly web platform.