TY  - CONF
N2  - Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) is a
staple food popularly cultivated by
small farmers in Niger. The stover are
also used as feeds for livestock (small
ruminant) as basal diet, especially
during the cold dry season.
 ICRISAT has developed many dualpurpose
millet varieties that aim to
increase feeds for livestock while
providing grain as food to farmers. But
the nutritional quality of Stover of
these varieties for livestock are not
known.
 This research aims to assess the
quality of residues of the dual-purpose
varieties and their effect on feed
intake and live weight changes of
young sheep.
AV  - public
KW  - Crops
KW  -  Crops Residues
KW  -  Small Ruminants
KW  -  Sheep
KW  -  Mixed Farming
A1  - Umutoni, C
A1  - Bado, B V
A1  - Whitbread, A M
A1  - Ayantunde, A
A1  - Abdoussalam, I
A1  - Korombe, H S
TI  - Evaluation of the feed quality of six dual purpose pearl millet varieties and growth performance of sheep fed their residues in Niger
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105609
T2  - Tropentag 2019: Filling gaps and removing traps for sustainable resources management
Y1  - 2019/09//
ID  - icrisat11418
M2  - University of Kassel, Germany
ER  -