Adoption of planted forages by smallholder dairy farmers in coastal lowland Kenya

Tropical Grasslands

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 221-229

  Mureithi, J G ^a   Njunie, M N ^a   Muinga, R W ^a   Ali, R ^a   Thorpe, W ^b   Mwatate, C D ^c  

^a KENYA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c Ministry of Agriculture   (Kenya)

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