Alley farming for improvement of small ruminants in West Africa. Report submitted to IFAD by ILCA. Final report on T A grant no. 40F-ILCA. Grant period: January 1989 - December 1991.
1992
This report summarizes the results of on-station and on-farm agronomy, animal nutrition/management and socioeconomic research on alley farming conducted mainly during 1989-91 with IFAD funding. The series of trials include alley farming with fallow, hedgegrow management, proportion of hedgegrow mulch, number of prunings as mulch, palatability of Gliricidia sepium accessions, evaluation of indigenous browse species, collection, identification and establishment, productivity under cultivation, browse supplementation and agronomic value of manure, optimum period for supplementing adult WAD sheep and goats and their performance, effect of Cajanus on lamb growth, digestibility of fresh and dried Leucaena, and effect of green maize stover on sheep growth. The report on the on-farm research and socioeconomic issues related to adoption and diffusion includes the setting for on-farm research, on-farm research and learning-adoption process, profitability of alley cropping and alley farming, long-term profitability, labour requirements for conventional and alley farming, land tenure and the potential for adoption, participation of women, from on-farm research to diffusion and extension, and AFNETA multi-zonal research and innovation waves.
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