Milking swamp buffaloes in villages in the Mekong delta of Vietnam

Livestock Research for Rural Development

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 64-73

  Van Thu, Nguyen ^a  

^a CAN THO UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Milk composition; Milk yield; Swamp buffalo; Target groups

Indexed keywords

BUBALUS;

EID: 3042598063     PISSN: 01213784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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