Progresses of designing community-based breeding strategies for indigenous sheep breeds of smallholders in Ethiopia (Afar Region)

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Published on October 2010

byWerer Agricultural Research Center

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Kifle, A. 2010. Progresses of designing community-based breeding strategies for indigenous sheep breeds of smallholders in Ethiopia (Afar Region). A presentation prepared for the ICARDA-ILRI-BOKU project workshop on Designing community-based breeding strategies for indigenous sheep breeds of smallholders in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, October 29, 2010. Ethiopia: Werer Agricultural Research Center.

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Kifle, A.

animal breeding
indigenous breeds
livestock

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