Draught Animal News No. 30, (1999)

 

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Research and Development Projects

Asia
Kyrgyz Republic:  Horses in the Kyrgyz Republic (R. Trevor Wilson)
India:  Draught Animal Utilisation for Agricultural Work in the Bastar Plateau Zone of India (A.K. Dave) India:  Techno-economic analysis of different modes of short (up to 5 km) and medium haulage distance (5-20 km) comparing truck, tractor trailer and animal carts (bullock, buffalo, camel, mule and donkey) (M. Din, Dr Jyotsana Madan, P.K. Srivastava) Indonesia:  The decorated 'Dokar' competition and parade in Denpasar, Bali (I. Wayan Kasa)

 

Latin America
El Salvador:  Regresan vertientes de agua a El Tránsito (Darwin Granda Jimo)

Africa

Short Notes and News

Cape Verde Islands:  Importance of the use of donkeys in the São Tiago Island (Republic of Cape Verde) (André de Almeida)
South Africa:  Feeding draught cattle in semi-arid areas -- studies in South Africa (Stanley Israel, Anne Pearson, Nkosi Mzileni, Bruce Joubert & David O'Neill)
Howell Living Industry Farm Agromisa Forest Management Foundation CIHEAM Rural Heritage videos Useful Websites

Book Review

New Book

Donkey Business III:  A guide for Raising, Training, Managing and Showing Donkeys (Christine Berry & Jo-Anne Kokas)
Feeding Standards for Cattle Used for Work by P.R. Lawrence & R.A. Pearson

Meeting Reports

The 25th meeting on Equine Research, Paris 1999 AGROMEC '99

Implements

The Golovan Oxcart
Swivel yoke

Letters to the Editor

Using working donkeys and project with gaited breeds (Mark Suklje)
Information required for thesis on practices by Nigerian agropastors in feeding camels (Hubert Guerin)

General Article

Recent Publications

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