Cultures fourragères tropicales

At the interface between crops and animal production, fodder crops play a specific role in production systems. Cirad, Inra and Ird have compiled the results obtained from 30 years of trials on fodder crops in West Africa, the West Indies, Reunion, the French Pacific territories and Madagascar. This book is primarily practical and has a dual aim: to supply basic information for use in developing cropping and management techniques, and to provide readers with access to observations and experiments. It presents recent developments in constantly changing fields such as grass species genetics or ecophysiology and covers more technical aspects with a view to helping livestock farmers with their choices.