Growth and nutritive value of Lablab purpureus accessions in semi-arid Kenya

Tropical Grasslands

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 214-218

  Karachi, M ^a,b  

^a National Dryland Farming Research Station   (Kenya)

^b Department of Animal Production   (Botswana)

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