Rangeland Plants Preferred by Goats Grazing at Western Jebel Marra Locality, Central Darfur State, Sudan

Subject Areas : Relationship between Animal and Rangeland

Gafar Bakhit ¹ , Mohammed Abdelkreim ² , Babo Fadlalla ³

1 - Department of Range, Faculty of Forestry Science, University of Zalingei,-Zalingei Sudan
2 - Department of Range Science, College of Forestry and Range Science, Sudan University of Science and Technology, B.P Box 6146 _ Post Code11113 Soba_ Khartoum _Sudan. E.mail .abdelkreim1979gmail.com
3 - Department of Range Science, College of Forestry and Range Science, Sudan University of Science and Technology, B.P Box 6146 _ Post Code11113 Soba_ Khartoum _Sudan

Received: 2018-06-03 Accepted : 2019-06-23 Published : 2020-04-01

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