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1977
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The concept and practice of including shortduration pasture mixtures or leys in agricultural rotations, particularly for intensive livestock production, are of recent development in tropical Africa. Although mixed farming -the keeping of animals for farm work, producing farmyard manure for the maintenance of soil fertility, and rearing of dairy cows to produce milk for household use - was first introduced as an organized system of settled farming in Nigeria in 1922, intensive animal husbandry, based on intensively maintained pasture mixtures, be it on a small or large scale, is still in the process of widespread development in many parts of tropical Africa.
Citation
Oyenuga, V A., "The importance of ley farming for improving the forage basis of tropical Africa" (1977). IGC Proceedings (1977-2023). 10.
(URL: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/1977/plenary/10)
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The importance of ley farming for improving the forage basis of tropical Africa
The concept and practice of including shortduration pasture mixtures or leys in agricultural rotations, particularly for intensive livestock production, are of recent development in tropical Africa. Although mixed farming -the keeping of animals for farm work, producing farmyard manure for the maintenance of soil fertility, and rearing of dairy cows to produce milk for household use - was first introduced as an organized system of settled farming in Nigeria in 1922, intensive animal husbandry, based on intensively maintained pasture mixtures, be it on a small or large scale, is still in the process of widespread development in many parts of tropical Africa.
