Exploiting sweetpotato as an animal feed in East Africa
Sweetpotato o!ers great potential as an animal feed in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) but its potential use as a feed or dual purpose (food and feed) crop has not been fully exploited. Dry season feed shortage has long been a problem in many parts of SSA. Researchers have developed an improved silage tube...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | Inglés |
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2013
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/144131 |
| Summary: | Sweetpotato o!ers great potential as an animal feed in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
but its potential use as a feed or dual purpose (food and feed) crop has not been
fully exploited. Dry season feed shortage has long been a problem in many parts
of SSA. Researchers have developed an improved silage tube and tested the
resultant sweetpotato silage on growing pigs with small-scale farmers in Kenya. |
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