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Local livestock breeds in danger of disappearing

06/09/2007

The Kenyan government has announced a programme to preserve local African breeds of cattle. There is a growing trend in the developing world to rely on a few, select, internationally successful breeds—high-yield Holstein-Friesian dairy cows are an obvious example. But this practice is in danger of causing indigenous breeds to die out. The...

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