Fodder production of some shrubs and trees under two harvest intervals in subhumid southern Ghana

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 139-147

  Barnes, P ^a  

^a Animal Research Institute Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Crude protein; Harvest intervals; Herbage yields; Primary and regrowth herbage; Tropical browse plants

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; FORAGE; SHRUB; TREE; YIELD;

GHANA;

ALBIZIA LEBBECK; ALBIZIA LEBBEK; ANIMALIA; BOVIDAE; CAJAN; CAJANUS CAJAN; CALLIANDRA; CALLIANDRA CALOTHRYSUS; CODARIOCALYX GYROIDES; FLEMINGIA; FLEMINGIA MACROPHYLLA; GLIRICIDIA SEPIUM; LEUCAENA; LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA; LEUCOCEPHALA; SAMANEAN; SAMANEAN SAMAN; SESBANIA SESBAN;

EID: 0032455404     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006194311124     Document Type: Article

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