Daily farmer training manual
Ksh158
Improving milk production in East Africa faces multiple constraints, however lack of farmer understanding of the productive cows’ nutritional needs – and how to satisfy them – are frequently a “first-limiting” consideration. This manual forms the underlying learning material for this course and is also designed as a reference resource for all course participant
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Daily farmer training manual
Contents
Chapters
1 Livestock husbandry 1
2 Livestock nutrition 23
3 Pasture and fodder agronomy 39
Pasture and crop choices 41
Forage and crop cultivation 53
Fertility and fertilizer 65
Complex systems 83
Preservation: Silage making–sweet potato vines 100
Urea mineral molasses blocks (UMMB) 109
4 Diary hygiene and milk transport 115
5 Putting it together
Daily farmer training manual
- Feeds. To produce milk you three things are important; feed, feed and more feed. …
- Cow house and equipment. …
- Buy they cow. …
- Seek knowledge and more knowledge. …
- Feeds. …
- Cow house and equipment. …
- Buy they cow. …
- Seek knowledge and more knowledge.
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