Nutritional quality of feed resources used by smallholder dairy farmers in the Northern Province of Rwanda.

Marie Anne Mukasafari, Mupenzi Mutimura, Ewa Wredle, Horacio Leandro Gonda

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Marie Anne MukasafariDepartment of Animal Production, University of Rwanda, Box 57, Nyagatare, Rwanda. anne.mukasafari@slu.se.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6044-5197

Mupenzi MutimuraRwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development Board, Box 5016, Kigali, Rwanda.

Ewa WredleDepartment of Applied Animal Science and Welfare, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7024, Uppsala, 750 07, Sweden.

Horacio Leandro GondaDepartment of Applied Animal Science and Welfare, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7024, Uppsala, 750 07, Sweden.

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Abstract

The study aimed to analyse both the type and quality of available feed resources used by smallholder dairy farmers in the Northern Province of Rwanda during the transition period from the short rainy season to the short dry season. A total of 218 feed samples were collected from 178 households. Twenty different feed types were identified and classified into: roadside vegetation (51%), cultivated grasses (45%), crop residues (23%), and cultivated trees (2%). Similar feeds from the same village and district were pooled, and the results from 175 feed samples were analysed for crude protein (CP), neutral detergent fibre (NDF), acid detergent fibre (ADF), and ash. Organic matter digestibility (OMD) and metabolisable energy (ME) content of the samples was calculated based on in vitro gas production at 24 h (GP

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Animal FeedDairyingNutritive ValueAnimalsCattleFarmersRwandaAnimal-source foodCrop residuesEast African countriesFeed qualityFodder treesForages

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PMID40679642

DOI10.1007/s11250-025-04562-w

PMCPMC12274249

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