Rural income generation through improving crop-based pig production systems in Vietnam: Diagnostics, interventions, and dissemination

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-85

  Peters, Dai ^a   Tinh, Nguyen Thi ^b   Hoan, Mai Thach ^c   Yen, Nguyen The ^d   Thach, Pham Ngoc ^e   Fuglie, Keith ^f  

^a International Centre for Tropical Agriculture   (Viet Nam)

^b National Institute of Animal Husbandry Hanoi   (Viet Nam)

^c Vietnam Agricultural Science Institute   (Viet Nam)

^d Field Crops Research Institute   (Viet Nam)

^e VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Viet Nam)

^f International Potato Center Bogor   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

On farm research; Participatory technology development; Pig production; Scaling up; Silage; Situation analysis; Sweet potato; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; IPOMOEA BATATAS; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 23844471610     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-004-7232-1     Document Type: Article

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