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Livestock credit in Nigeria: A case of the smallholder fattening scheme

Re-examines the stated success of the Smallholder Fattening Scheme, one of the sub-projects under the Second Livestock Development Project in Nigeria designed to improve the quality and weight of cattle at slaughter by establishing smallholder cattle fattening credit schemes in different parts of th...

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Main Author: Gefu, J.O.
Format: Artículo preliminar
Language:Inglés
Published: International Livestock Centre for Africa 1992
Subjects:
credit
livestock
small scale farming
fattening
development projects
weight gain
profitability
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/4288
Summary:Re-examines the stated success of the Smallholder Fattening Scheme, one of the sub-projects under the Second Livestock Development Project in Nigeria designed to improve the quality and weight of cattle at slaughter by establishing smallholder cattle fattening credit schemes in different parts of the country, in terms of loan recovery rate, liveweight gains achieved, and profit margins.

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