Integrating Characterization of Smallholders’ Feeding Practices with On-Farm Feeding Trials to Improve Utilization of Crop Residues on Smallholder Farms

Table 5

Constraints faced by farmers () in feeding crop residues and cited strategies to address them (%).

Strategies	Lack storage facilities	Low palatability	Milling expense	Reduced milk yield	Others
Adding molasses	0.00	54.50	12.80	0.00	12.40
Build storage facilities	77.60	0.00	8.40	3.80	32.00
Buy milling machine	3.50	0.00	45.10	0.00	9.20
Incorporate additives	0.00	30.00	4.90	31.10	7.00
Others	6.80	40.80	28.30	4.70	87.90
Total for constraints	35.6	54.7	70.0	19.6	80.1