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Livestock-Based Farming Systems, Renewable  Resources and the Environment

  

Methane emissions, feed intake and nitrogen balance in cattle fed cassava root chips and fresh cassava foliage with NPN from potassium nitrate or urea

Cheat Sophal, Duong Nguyen Khang and T R Preston,

RUA, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Mean values for change in live weight of Yellow cattle fed cassava root chips and frresh cassava foliage with NPN from K-nitrate or urea
  K-Nitrate Urea SEM P
Init 139.8 139.9 2.30  
Fin 146.7 144.6 1.56 0.39
ADG 0.462 0.316 0.12 0.45

 
   
Key words: Carbon dioxide, climate change, greenhouse gas,  NPN, N retention