Smallholder dairy cattle production in coastal Kenya: resource base assessment and constraint identification
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Smallholder Dairy Herd Management in Kenya
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عنوان ژورنال: BSAP Occasional Publication
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0263-967X,2053-5953
DOI: 10.1017/s0263967x0003127x