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Farming snails 1: learning about snails, building a pen, food and shelter plants

Better Farming Series, no. 33 (1986)

Year of publication 1986

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 68 p.

Author Animal Production and Health Division

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

ISBN 92-5-102396-4

Series title FAO Better Farming Series

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This illustrated manual teaches a farmer the basics of snail farming: how to identify edible snails, how to locate snails, where to farm them, plants for food and plants to shelter snails, and how to manage environmental factors such as land that is wet, dew, rain and wind.

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