Feed value of some browse plants from the Central Zone of Delta State, Nigeria

Tropical Science

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 97-104

  Aregheore, E M ^a,b   Makkar, H P S ^a   Becker, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b Animal Production Unit   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Antinutritional factors; Browse plants; Digestibility; Metabolizable energy; Organic matter

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031838476     PISSN: 00413291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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