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Effects of Selected Routine Husbandry Practices on Growth Rate of Weaned Small East African Goats
(2010)
This study was conducted to determine the effects of overnight housing, helminthes control, supplementation and their combinations on average weight gain of weaned Small East African Goats (SEAG) in the semi-arid southeastern ...
Price response of herd off-take under market liberalization in a developing cattle sector: panel analysis applied to Kenya's ranching
(2008)
The influence of price, in view of macro-economic policy change and a set of other factors, on herd off-take rates from ranches in Kenya over a period of 17 years was assessed. An AR(1) equation, based on Nerlove's classical ...
Economic factors affecting the level of beef production from ranching: an example of Kenya's cattle sector
(1993)
An econometric method was used to determine the economic factors that influence the level of beef production from ranches in one of the range areas in Kenya. The study also used both cross section and time-series data ...
Pastoral production system
(2002)
Improving soil hydrological properties of denuded semi-arid rangeland in southeastern Kenya using reseeding technology
(2010)
A study was conducted to establish the contribution of Eragrostis superba, Enteropogon macrostachyus and Cenchrus ciliaris in improving soil hydrological properties in semi-arid Kenya. Kamphorst rainfall simulator was used ...
A Review of African Pastoral Production Systems: Approaches to Their Understanding and Development
(2002)
Pastoralism is a system that has been in existence
for a long time. Scholars have come up with
a cornucopia of definitions related to what entails
this centuries old art. Many of these scholars
agree, though, that ...