Socio-economic aspects of smallholder dairying in Zimbabwe

Livestock Research for Rural Development

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 56-70

  Hanyani Mlambo, B T ^a   Sibanda, S ^a   Ostergaard V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Constraints; Small holder dairying; Socio economics; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346148275     PISSN: 01213784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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