9 June 2017, Nairobi – The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has launched an instructional video that teaches dairy farmers how to make sweetpotato vine silage. The video titled ‘Sweetpotato Vine Silage: An instructional video for dairy farmers’ was developed by the Mazingira Centre —an environmental research and education facility—based …
Read More »This is an instructional video on how to prepare sweetpotato vine silage for dairy feeding. It was produced under a project in Kenya by ILRI’s Mazingira Centre on Innovative Feeding Approaches for Dairy Farmers, implemented under a Green Innovation Centres (GIAE) program funded by the German Corporation for International Cooperation …
Read More »This is an instructional video on how to prepare sweet potato vine silage for dairy feeding. It was produced under a project in Kenya by ILRI’s Mazingira Centre on Innovative Feeding Approaches for Dairy Farmers, implemented under a Green Innovation Centres (GIAE) program funded by the German Corporation for International …
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Animal forages are scarce in quantity and are inadequate in quality especially in dry season. Alternatively, sweetpotato vines can provide more protein and dry matter. This presentation reports on a ‘proof of concept’ project seeking to identify dual purpose SP varieties and appropriate ratio of SP and other feed stuff …
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