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  1. How to Make Your Own Salt Licks and Urea Blocks

    1999-10-19 Salt licks can provide the minerals that are often lacking, such as phosphorus, sodium, calcium and magnesium. Salt licks can be purchased to improve production, but limited cash and/or proximity to a town or village may prohibit doing so regularly. It is possible, however, to make your own salt...
    Livestock Nutrition SALT

  2. I Know the Protein Content of a Dry Forage. How Do I Calculate What It Would Be When I Feed It Green?

    1999-12-19 How to calculate protein content of fresh forage.
    Livestock Forage Nutrition

  3. New Uses of Moringa Studied in Nicaragua

    2000-06-20 A report on the work of Nikolaus and Gabriele Foidl with Moringa in Nicaragua.
    Moringa Nutrition Livestock Water Treatment

  4. Red Palm Oil: More Than Just a Good Source of Vitamin A

    2001-07-20 Perennials that year after year incorporate atmospheric carbon dioxide into biomass, improve our environment, and give us useful food, feed and fuel are wonderful plants. Residents of West Africa have long recognized the African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) as such a plant. There may be places...
    Nutrition Oil Palm

  5. Eating Green Leaves

    2001-10-20 A few years ago (August, 1999), David Kennedy from Leaf for Life shared some experiences with drying leaves in Latin America.
    Dark Green Leafy V... Drying Vegetables Nutrition

  6. Drying Green Leaves in the Sun

    2001-10-20 A booklet by Leaf for Life called “Drying Green Leaves in the Sun” has some helpful hints about drying leaves and what to do with the leaf powder.
    Dark Green Leafy V... Drying Vegetables Nutrition Leaf Powder

  7. Experience with the Chaya Plant in Kenya

    2003-01-20 Chaya is sometimes dubbed "the spinach tree." It is a fast growing drought and disease-resistant shrub that provides large quantities of edible, very nutritious leaves.
    Dark Green Leafy V... Underutilized Crops Chaya Nutrition

  8. Atemoya, A Quality Tropical Fruit

    1996-10-19 The atemoya is one of those fewfruits that can be considered a fully adequate dessert.
    Fruit Trees Annonas Nutrition

  9. Growth of Chaya in Different Climates

    2003-01-20 In EDN Issue 72, we asked readers how chaya grows in various climates; whether or not it is accepted locally as a green vegetable; and if so, how it is usually prepared and served. Thank you to those of you who responded!We received reports from many different countries. Chaya has been found to...
    Dark Green Leafy V... Chaya Nutrition

  10. A Caution about Eating Excessive Amounts of Moringa stenopetala: Eat Like the Deer

    2004-01-20 In a survey reported in the East African Medical Journal, 597 school children and their parents were surveyed in areas of southern Ethiopia that have very high incidence of goiter. M. stenopetala had a significant association with the prevalence of goiter.
    Moringa Health Nutrition