Enhancing pig productivity on East African smallholder farms
East African smallholder farmers raise pigs to generate income for medicine, school, food, and funerals (Dewey et al. 2011). Seasonal feed shortages and unbalanced diets contribute to slow pig growth and reduced earnings. The thesis objectives were to: 1) determine the average daily gain (ADG) of...
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University of Guelph
2015
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68291 |
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