Optimal stage of maturity for feeding napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum) to dairy cows in Kenya

Tropical Grasslands

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 182-190

  Muia, J M K ^a   Tamminga, S ^b   Mbugua, P N ^b   Kariuki, J N ^a  

^a National Animal Husbandry Research Centre Kenya   (Kenya)

^b NONE

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