Gliricidia sepium as an alternative protein supplement to cottonseed cake for smallholder dairy cows fed on Napier grass in Tanzania

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-72

  Shem, M N ^a   Machibula, B P ^a   Sarwatt, S V ^a   Fujihara, T ^b  

^a SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Degradability constants; Milk yield and substitution; Nutritive value

Indexed keywords

DAIRY FARMING; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; MILK PRODUCTION; SMALLHOLDER;

TANZANIA;

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; GLIRICIDIA; GLIRICIDIA SEPIUM; MICROPUS; PENNISETUM PURPUREUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0141685715     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025454425048     Document Type: Article

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