Factors that determine use of breeding services by smallholder dairy farmers in Central Kenya

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 199-207

  Murage, Alice W ^a   Ilatsia, Evans D ^a,b  

^a National Animal Husbandry Research Centre Kenya   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breeding services; Central Kenya; Smallholder farmers

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREEDING; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERVIEW; KENYA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; KENYA; MALE; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 78649944886     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-010-9674-3     Document Type: Article

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