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Title Identification and Characterization of Browse Plants in Kumasi District, Ashanti Region of Ghana
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/618
Date 1994
Author(s) ASANTE, William Jasper
Abstract xii, 118p.:ill. - Inadequate nutrition is one of the most serious constraints to livestock production in the Sub-Saharan African Region. The importance of brows plants in overcoming feed shortage has long been recognised but not much has been done in evaluating their nutritional values. This study which was carried out in two phases, first aimed at identifying the various browse species used as fodder by livestock farmers in the Kumasi District of Ghana. This was followed by the nutritional analyses of the identified species. A 2-stage stratified sampling technique was adopted to delineate the district into nine zones. This was followed by random selection of two town in each of the nine zones. Five (5) farmers were each interviewed with the help of questionnaires in each of the selected towns on browse utilization. Data was also collected on animal types, farming systems and feeding management over a 5-month period. The second phase entailed chemical analyses of the identified species in terms of crude protein. - Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technlogy Library, Kumasi, Ghana.
Subject(s) Browse Plants; Livestock Production; Kumasi Ashanti Region; Fodder, Nutirtional analysis; Ficus Exasperata Albizia Zygia; Thalia Geniculata
Language en
Type of publication Thesis
Identifier 2082
Repository Kumasi - Kwame Nkrumah University
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