Draught Animal News No.11, (Aug. 1989)


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Research and Development Projects

Europe
UK: Mules for Draught work at the University of East Anglia (Andrew Mattick)
Asia
India: Studies on animal draught power evaluation systems and factors influencing efficiency of work production (R.C. Upadhyay and M.V.N. Rao) Sri Lanka: Survey on Draught animals and farm tools in Kurunegala District (Rohana Ulluwishewa) India: Work on animal drawn vehicles at the Centre on drought animal power (M.S. Srinivasan)Africa
Zambia: Credit facilities available for animal power and draught implements in Zambia (A.C. Mwitwa)

Meetings

Second ACIAR International Workshop on Draught Animal Power, Indonesia, 3-7 July 1989. National Workshop on Draught Animal Power Research and Development ,Nigeria, 18-20 June 1989 Draught Animal Technology Course, College for Tropical Vet. Medicine, Edinburgh, Scotland and the Netherlands, 2 Oct-8 Dec. 1989 Workshop on the Role of Draught Animal Technology in Rural Development, 2-12 April 1990.

Forum

Views on Shoes for Oxen (P. Lawrence)

Short Notes and News

Tillers International, Kalamazoo, USA CTVM, Donkey Research in the UK Draught cows in Bangladesh

Book Report

Draught Animal Power Research and Development in Nigeria , A Bibliography , (J.O. Gefu, E.O. Otekere, E.S. Gwani, and H.U. Ahmed) The Importance of Working Animals to the Livestock and Arable Sectors of Modern Agriculture in the People's Republic of China (Paul Tibbs)

Implements and Instrumentation

A Multipurpose Portable Data Acquisition System for Research Work in Animal Traction, (J. Becker)

General Articles

Mexico: Draught animal power in Mexico, (B.S. Sims)

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