Contents

Papers

• Experiences in the management and exchange of electronic information for sustainable agriculture; Nicholas Waltham
• Connecting Bangladeshi Villages; Iqbal Z. Quadir

• Productive performance of F1 compared with other 50% European-zebu crossbred cows for dual purpose systems in the Venezuelan tropics; Lucía Vaccaro, Armando Pérez and Rodolfo Vaccaro

• The productive water decontamination system: A tool for protecting water resources in the tropics; J Chará, Gloria Pedraza and Natalia Conde

• Overall view on the tradition of tapping palm trees and prospects for animal production; Christophe Dalibard

• Liveweight gain of growing cattle offered maize meal or citrus pulp as supplements to diets based on poultry litter and restricted grazing of low quality pastures: G Nouel and J Combellas

• Sugar cane as replacement for Guinea grass for growing goats; Le Diep Long Bien

• Duckweed versus soya bean meal as a supplement for scavenging local chickens in an integrated farming system; Hong Samnang

• Gas production from pig manure fed at different loading rates to polyethylene tubular biodigesters; Bui Xuan An and T R Preston

• Comparison of the in sacco rumen and washing loss methods to estimate the potential energetic value for livestock of leaves from tropical trees, shrubs and crop residues: Nguyen Van Lai and Nguyen Thi Thu Huong

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• Observations on scavenging Local (indigenous) and Tam Hoang (exotic) chickens given free access (when confined at night) to duckweed (Lemnaceae) offered alone or mixed with rice bran; Lylian Rodriguez and T R Preston
  

Administrative

• Livestock Research for Rural Development Newsletter
  
• Abstracts
  
• List of Editors and Notes for Authors