Free-range village chickens on the Accra Plains, Ghana: Their contribution to households

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 223-234

  Aboe, P A T ^a   Boa Amponsem, K ^a   Okantah, S A ^a   Dorward, P T ^b   Bryant, M J ^b  

^a Animal Research Institute Ghana   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ghana; Household economies; Village chickens

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; CHICKEN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; EGG; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEAT;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; EGGS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; FOOD SUPPLY; GHANA; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MEAT;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 33744955574     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-006-4357-9     Document Type: Article

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