The impact of best practice health and husbandry interventions on smallholder cattle productivity in southern Cambodia

Animal Production Science

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 629-637

  Young, J R ^a   Rast, L ^a   Suon, S ^b   Bush, R D ^a   Henry, L A ^a   Windsor, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Department of Animal Health and Production ^*  (Cambodia)

Author keywords

average daily gain; extension; food security; foot and mouth disease; forage development; haemorrhagic septicaemia; rural poverty; South East Asia; weight gain

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL PRODUCT; ANIMAL WELFARE; BACTERIAL DISEASE; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; BODY MASS; CATTLE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; FARMERS KNOWLEDGE; FOOD SECURITY; FORAGE; GROWTH RESPONSE; MARKETING; NUTRITION; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; PRODUCTIVITY; PROFITABILITY; SMALLHOLDER; SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; VACCINATION; VIRAL DISEASE;

CAMBODIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 84897548325     PISSN: 18360939     EISSN: 18365787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AN13033     Document Type: Article

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