Indigenous livestock production paradigms revisited: Survey of plants of ethnoveterinary importance in southeastern Nigeria

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 257-263

  Okoli, I C ^a   Okoli, Chidi G ^a   Ebere, C S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Ethnoveterinary; Livestock ailments; Nigeria; Plants

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; ETHNOBOTANY; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; LIVESTOCK FARMING; PEST CONTROL;

NIGERIA;

EID: 0038739202     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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