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Adapting Tropical Pasture Research to the Production System: from Australian Ranching to African Pastoralism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

Wolfgang Bayer  and
Ann Waters-Bayer
Wolfgang Bayer
Affiliation:
International Livestock Centre for Africa, Subhumid Zone Programme, Kaduna, Nigeria
Ann Waters-Bayer
Affiliation:
International Livestock Centre for Africa, Subhumid Zone Programme, Kaduna, Nigeria
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Summary

The questions and design of pasture research in tropical Australia and the resulting technologies address problems encountered in the prevailing extensive beef-production systems. In African pastoral systems, forage resource use is more intensive and complex, and production aims are manifold. An example of applied research in central Nigeria illustrates the usefulness of certain components of Australian pasture technology but the need to adapt them, particularly with respect to pasture utilization and management, within trials deliberately designed to address the differing problems in the local pastoral system.

Type
Research Article
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Experimental Agriculture , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , July 1989 , pp. 277 - 289
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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