Participatory definition of breeding objectives and selection indexes for sheep breeding in traditional systems

Livestock Science

Volumn 128, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 67-74

  Gizaw, Solomon ^a,b   Komen, Hans ^b   van Arendonk, Johan A M ^b  

^a Debre Berhan Agricultural Research Center   (Ethiopia)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breeding objective; Farmer participatory approach; Selection index; Sheep farming

Indexed keywords

HORDEUM; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 76349104432     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2009.10.016     Document Type: Article

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