Integrated resource-driven pig production systems in a mountainous area of Northeast India: Production practices and pig performance

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1187-1196

  Kumaresan, A ^a   Bujarbaruah, K M ^a,b   Pathak, K A ^a   Das, Anubrata ^a,c   Bardoloi, R K ^a  

^a ICAR RESEARCH COMPLEX FOR NEH REGION   (India)

^b INDIAN COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c NRC on Pig   (India)

Author keywords

Disease incidence; Growth performance; Northeastern India; Pig production; Smallholder resource driven system

Indexed keywords

ANTINEMATODAL AGENT; FENBENDAZOLE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; DRUG EFFECT; ECONOMICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; STATISTICS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTINEMATODAL AGENTS; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; FENBENDAZOLE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MORTALITY; SUS SCROFA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

SUIDAE;

EID: 70350335918     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-008-9299-y     Document Type: Article

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