The use and management of draught animals by smallholder farmers in the former Ciskei and Transkei

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• Respectively Project Leader, International Development Group, Silsoe Research Institute, Wrest Park, UK; Senior Technician, and Research Assistants (Mzileni, Mapeyi and Njekwa), Animal Traction Centre, Department of Agronomy, University of Fort Hare, South Africa; PhD Student, Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine (CTVM), University of Edinburgh, UK. The authors are grateful to Dr RA Pearson, CTVM, for assistance in the preparation of the article, to the Agricultural and Rural Development Research Institute (Ardri), Fort Hare, for providing introductions to some of the farmers interviewed, and to the British Department for International Development (DFID) for financial support provided through their RNRRS Livestock Production Programme (Grant No R6609). The information and views expressed are entirely the responsibility of the authors and are not attributable to any of the organisations involved.
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