Assessment of camel and camel milk marketing practices in an emerging peri-urban production system in Isiolo County, Kenya

Pastoralism

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Noor, Issack Mohamed ^a   Guliye, Abdi Yakub ^a   Tariq, Muhammad ^b,c   Bebe, Bockline Omedo ^a  

^a EGERTON UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Camel milk; Market integration; Milk hygiene; Peri urban camel production; Value addition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975282631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20417136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-7136-3-28     Document Type: Article

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