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6.2 Some aspects and experiences, past and present, of intensive milk production in Kenya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

E. M. Kidner
E. M. Kidner
Affiliation:
Minster Agriculture, Belmont, 13 Upper High Street, Thome, Oxfordshire
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Smith (1976) points out that “the developing world is littered with schemes aimed at improving animal production that… have been only partially successful or… positively harmful, resulting in disruption of traditional ways of life and… destruction of the environment by overgrazing”.

Type
Intensive Production of Large Ruminants
Information
BSAP Occasional Publication , Volume 4: Intensive Animal Production in Developing Countries , January 1981 , pp. 331 - 336
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Production 1981

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