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Showcase 17: Double the benefits: legumes improve both milk and rice production

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Publication date
19/05/2010
Language:
English
Type of Publication:
Working Papers & Briefs
Focus Region:
Asia and the Pacific
Focus Topic:
Agricultural Value Chains / Agri-Businesses
Source
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/r4d/PDF/Outputs/ResearchIntoUse/RIU_Showcase_17_Legumes_for_more_milk_and_rice.pdf
Author
RIU

This series of two-page brief highlights some of the new technologies and processes available, in order to inspire practitioners and policy-makers to put them to use. This one outlines how one answer to the problem of feed
shortages in Bangladesh is to grow forage legumes, either together with rice or in between rice crops.

For further information on the research described in this Showcase, see also this output.