LEVELS OF SOME NUTRIENTS AND NON-ESSENTIAL METALS IN COWS' WHOLE MILK FROM ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA

摘要

Diverse rainfall and temperature patterns are largely the result of Ethiopia's location in Africa's tropical zone and the country's varied topography. Winds that originate over the Atlantic Ocean and blow across Equatorial Africa have marked seasonal effect on much of Ethiopia. The resulting weather pattern provides the highlands with most of its rainfall during a period that generally lasts from mid-June to mid-September. The main rainy season is usually preceded in April and May by converging northeast and southeast winds that produce a brief period of light rains, known as balg. These rains are followed by a short period of hot dry weather, followed by violent thunderstorms occurring almost daily toward the middle of June.