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Excavating with cows

author(s) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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CTA. 1987. Excavating with cows. Spore 11. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

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Abstract

For several years now, ILCA (International Livestock Centre for Africa) has been successfully experimenting with the use of draught animal power to excavate ponds. A pair of cows harnessed to an easily made implement can move 13 cubic metres of...

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