Adoption of planted forages by smallholder dairy farmers in coastal lowland Kenya
Smallholder dairy development in coastal lowland Kenya is mainly constrained by inadequate nutrition. Since the early 1960s, high quality forages have been introduced to improve feeding of dairy cattle in the region. A study was conducted to assess the contribution made by these forages to dairy cat...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | Inglés |
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1998
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/27925 |
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