Draught Animal News No.12, (May 1990)


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Research and Development Projects

Asia
India: Studies on the draught ability in Indian camels at the National Research Centre on Camel (A.K. Rai and N.D. Khanna)
Bangladesh: a Study on the draught output of cows on improved and conventional feeding (M. Saadullah, R.I. Sarker, M. Abdul Huq, and G.S. Alam)
The Philippines: Research on local and crossbred draught buffaloes at the PCRDC(M. Cruz-Fransisco)
Africa
Botswana: Modification of animal drawn implements in Northern Botswana (H. Loos)
Ethiopia: Comparative study of work performance of crossbred and local oxen (A. Kebede, T. Germeda, M. Tilahun)

Meetings

The National Workshop on Draught Animal Power Research and Development, Zaria, Nigeria, 18-20 Junr 1989 The Inaugural Meeting of the World Association for Transport and Animal Welfare Studies (TAWS) , Wolfson College, Oxford, 12 December 1990 Fourth Workshop of the West African Animal Traction Network , Kano, Nigeria, 9-13 July Third Draught Animal Tech. Course, CTVM Edinburgh and Larenstein College, the Netherlands, 25 March-14 June 1991.

Forum - Letters

Views on Shoes(Dr. John L. Wheeler) Oxen Shoeing (Mr. Simon Goodfellow)

Book Reviews

An Introduction to Working Animals, Dr.J.L. Falvey

General Articles

Draught Animals in Chinese Agriculture (P. Tibbs)

Recent Publications


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