Livestock manure is an important source of nutrients for crop production in semi-arid West Africa. An assessment of the potential of manure to sustain crop production calls for an estimation of the amounts of manure that could be produced and captured and the feed resources required to maintain l...
Fernández Rivera, S.
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Williams, Timothy O.
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Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y.
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Powell, J.M.
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[Faecal excretion by ruminants and manure availability for crop production in semi-arid West Africa]
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Faecal excretion by ruminants and manure availability for crop production in semi-arid West Africa
Growing pearl millet and cowpea in combination with raising ruminant livestock is widely practiced in the Sahel. In this farming system, livestock feeding depends mostly on rangeland, fallows and cropland grazing. Nutritional constraints to grazing ruminants stem primarily from feed scarcity and ...
Fernández Rivera, S.
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Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y.
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Williams, Timothy O.
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Turner, M.
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Schlecht, E.
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Salla, A.
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Ayantunde, Augustine A.
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Sangare, M.
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[Nutritional constraints to grazing ruminants in the millet-cowpea- livestock farming system of the Sahel]
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Nutritional constraints to grazing ruminants in the millet-cowpea- livestock farming system of the Sahel
A classification of the major ruminant livestock production systems in West Africa is proposed. The proposed typology has two major classes of systems-sole livestock and crop-livestock. The sole livestock class has two systems (rangeland-based and landless) and the crop-livestock class has three ...
Fernández Rivera, S.
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Okike, I.
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Manyong, Victor M.
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Williams, Timothy O.
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Kruska, R.L.
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Tarawali, Shirley A.
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[Classification and description of the major farming systems incorporating ruminant livestock in West Africa]
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Classification and description of the major farming systems incorporating ruminant livestock in West Africa