Agronomy, 2023 Securing good feed and sustaining production is one of the main pillars of the livestock production sector. However, this is difficult to achieve in many different environments or circumstances.
Walid Soufan
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Evaluation of Competitive Indices and Cultivation Efficiency of Cotton-Fodder Beet Intercropping under Weed Interference Conditions [PDF]
Majallah-i ḥifāẓat-i giyāhān, 2021 Introduction: Intercropping involves growing more than one crop in the same field at the same time. Intercropping increase diversity in the cropping system and enhance the utilization of resources such as light, heat and water.
M. Rastgoo +3 more
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Variability of fodder value of collection samples bentgrass
Multifunctional adaptive fodder production, 2021 The peculiarities of the manifestation of variability and interrelationships of feed quality indicators in 27 genotypes belonging to three types of bentgrass were studied. A significant level of genotypic variability in the content of crude fat, crude protein, ash, phosphorus and potassium was revealed.
Tatyana Kozlova +3 more
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Influence of soil and climatic conditions on the chemical composition and nutritional value of Kochia prostrata feed in the arid zone of Western Kazakhstan [PDF]
Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2023 The forage kochia, Kochia prostrata is used in agriculture as a high-quality pasture plant, however, it has not shown itself to be a stable pasture-haymaking plant. Therefore, in this study, a new direction was chosen for using forage kochia as fodder, i.
Bolat Mukhambetov +4 more
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Frontiers in Animal Science, 2023 Burkina Faso livestock feeding is characterized by a hot dry season fodder deficit, which affects animal performance and causes economic losses. To overcome this challenge, improving quality fodder production through the use of dual-purpose crops is a ...
Sanfo Abroulaye +9 more
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Ecological Restoration of Degraded Pasture Ecosystems Biodiversity and Fodder Productivity in the Central Asian Desert [PDF]
BIO Web of Conferences, 2023 The increasing pressure of anthropogenic and technogenic factors on the soil and vegetation cover in the Central Asian desert is due to their degradation which dictates the need for ecological restoration of these destroyed pasture lands. For restore the
Shamsutdinov Nariman +1 more
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Local knowledge held by farmers in Eastern Tyrol (Austria) about the use of plants to maintain and improve animal health and welfare [PDF]
, 2016 Background The sustainable management of animal health and welfare is of increasing importance to consumers and a key topic in the organic farming movement.
Vogl, Christian R. +2 more
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Economic viability of phytoremediation of a cadmium contaminated agricultural area using energy maize: part II: economics of anaerobic digestion of metal contaminated maize in Belgium [PDF]
, 2010 This paper deals with remediation of the Campine soil, an agricultural area diffusely contaminated with metals where most farmers raise dairy cattle and grow fodder maize.
Meers, Erik +3 more
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Length of Fallow Period and Pastoral Value of Herbaceous Plants in the Sudanese Zone of Senegal
Revue d’Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, 2002 The pasture value of Sudanese fallows was determined for the Sare Yero Bana soil of High Casamance in Senegal by studying fodder diversity and the global quality index. Fodder diversity was higher in young fallow rangelands.
L. E. Akpo, D. Masse, M. Grouzis
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Feed and Fodder Value Chains in Bihar: Some Empirical Evidences [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 Livestock production, especially dairy, has long been an important activity for smallholder and resource-poor farmers in India, both for household nutrition and income. Most of the livestock are kept in mixed farming systems, where crop residues, mainly cereal straws have been an important feed resource.
Singh, K.M. +5 more
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