Poverty, low crop and animal productivity and large scale resource degradation are major problems in the agriculture sector in the East African highlands. Among others, integration of forage legumes in cereal based cropping systems has been proposed as a promising strategy to improve the sustaina...
Kassie, M.
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Jabbar, M.A.
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Kassa, B.
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Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.
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[Benefits of integration of cereals and forage legumes with and without crossbred cows in mixed farms - an ex ante analysis for highland Ethiopia]
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Benefits of integration of cereals and forage legumes with and without crossbred cows in mixed farms - an ex ante analysis for highland Ethiopia
In sub-Saharan Africa, animal traction is well developed in the Ethiopian highlands and common in the highlands of Kenya and Madagascar, but it is abscent in other highland areas. The technique is also well develop in areas of the semi-arid tropics and is emerging in some parts of the subhumid zo...
This paper compares the conclusions drawn from ILCA's work on single-ox and cow traction in Africa with those drawn from surveys and farmers' experience in South East Asia especially Thailand and Bangladesh. The ILCA work shows cow traction to be apparently more profitable than single-ox ploughin...