Cowpea and groundnut haulms fodder trading and its lessons for multidimensional cowpea improvement for mixed crop livestock systems in West Africa
Cowpea is an important legume crop in Africa, valued highly for its grain and also haulms, which are a tradable commodity in fodder markets. Fodder market surveys in Northern Nigeria showed that groundnut haulms were priced higher than cowpea haulms, probably because of their superior nutritive valu...
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Frontiers Media
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/79757 |
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