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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Main Authors:	Samireddypalle, A., Boukar, O., Grings, Elaine E., Fatokun, C.A., Kodukula, P., Devulapalli, R., Okike, Iheanacho, Blümmel, Michael
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	Inglés
Published:	Frontiers Media 2017
Subjects:	grain legumes dual purpose cowpea haulm fodder quality multi-dimensional crop improvement heritability of haulm traits cowpea fodder groundnut fodder genotypes
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/79757