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Excavating with cows
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Excavating with cows
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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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 earth or mud by day. To dig a 3,000 m3 pond the excavation thus costs about USD 1,000. Many watering holes in Ethiopia have had to be abandoned because of silting which can reach 1,000-2,000 m3 per year. Such siltation can now be controlled in this way without relying on costly mechanized technologies that are often inaccessible For more details, contact: S. Bunnig, A. Astatke or F. Anderson I LCA P.O. Box 5689 Addis Ababa Ethiopia 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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2014-10-02T13:13:26Z
2014-10-02T13:13:26Z 1987 |
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News Item
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CTA. 1987. Excavating with cows. Spore 11. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/44706 |
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en
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Spore, Spore 11
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CTA
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Spore
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