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Obitsu Taketo: Professor

Affiliation	Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life
Discipline	Bioresource/Food Sciences
Academic Degrees	HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY　Doctor of Agriculture HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY　Master of Agriculture
Research Fields	Agricultural sciences; Animal life science; Animal production science
Research Keywords	lactating cows / digestion and metabolism / automatic milking system / milk / diestive tract / Protein / Amino acids / bioactive food components / mitigating greenhouse gas emission / animal feed
Comments	My research goal is sustainable ruminant animal production by balancing nutrient supply, utilizing forages and byproduct feeds and mitigating green house gas emissions.
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Past media appearances
Topic	Earth Science Food and Life Style Men and Farm Animals
SDGs
	I am conducting the research on the mitigating greenhouse gases from livestock production, especially for the reduction of enteric methane production by feed management and genetic selection.
Educational Programs	[Bachelor Degree Program] School of Applied Biological Science : Department of Applied Biological Science : Applied Animal and Plant Science Program [Master's Program] Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life : Division of Integrated Sciences for Life : Program of Bioresource Science [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life : Division of Integrated Sciences for Life : Program of Bioresource Science

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