Productivity and nutritive value of barley green fodder yield in hydroponic system

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 531-539

  Fazaeli, H ^a   Golmohammadi, H A ^b   Tabatabayee, S N ^c   Asghari Tabrizi, M ^c  

^a ANIMAL SCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^b Agricultural Research Station   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Barley sprout; Feed value; Hydroponic; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856173170     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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