Indigenous livestock as the backbone of African animal agriculture: The importance of adaptive attributes and potential for their exploitation
Africa is well endowed with a diversity of breeds and strains of livestock, which have proved remarkably suited to survive and produce under prevailing environmental rigours. Over 90 percent of the ruminant population in Africa is indigenous, although the numbers of distinct breeds of cattle, sheep...
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1994
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/70853 |
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