Nutritive evaluation of some Acacia tree leaves from Kenya
- 30 May 2000
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Animal Feed Science and Technology
- Vol. 85 (1-2), 89-98
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0377-8401(00)00133-4
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