Influence of Maize and Cowpea Intercropping on Fodder Production and Characteristics of Silage

Azim, A.; Khan, A. G.; Nadeem, M. A.; Din, Muhammad

doi:10.5713/ajas.2000.781

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“…The average organic matter (OM) digestibility of 14 maize silages was 73.8% (DeBoever et al 1993). Azim et al (2000) reported that in situ DM digestibility of maize silage was 55.70%. The in situ DM digestibility of millet silage incubated in the rumen for 48 h was 64.39% (Grewal et al 2003).…”

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Nutrients intake, digestibility, nitrogen balance and growth performance of sheep fed different silages with or without concentrate

Khan

Shahzad

Nisa

et al. 2010

Trop Anim Health Prod

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The experiment was conducted to investigate the influence of maize (Zea mays), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) and millet (Pennisetum americannum) silages with or without concentrate on nutrients intake, digestibility, nitrogen balance and weight gain in Sipli sheep. Six experimental diets were formulated having 100% maize silage (MS), maize silage and concentrate as 50:50 (MSC), 100% sorghum silage (SS), sorghum silage and concentrate as 50:50 (SSC), 100% millet silage (MiS) and millet silage and concentrate as 50:50 (MiSC), respectively. For this purpose, 24 Sipli lambs were randomly allotted to six experimental diets in a completely randomized design for 90 days, four lambs per diet. The results indicated that among various silage diets, lambs fed MS diet consumed higher dry matter (DM) than those fed SS and MiS diets. Likewise, lambs offered MSC had higher dry matter intake than those fed SSC and MiSC diets. Crude protein (CP) and neutral detergent fibre (NDF) consumed by the lambs also followed the similar trend. Higher DM, CP and NDF digestibilities were also observed in lambs fed MS and MSC diets than those fed SS, SSC, MiS and MiSC diets. Overall digestibilities of DM, CP and NDF were higher in experimental diets containing silage with concentrate. Lambs fed MS diet had 2.79 g/day and 4.45 g/day higher N retention than those fed SS and MiS, respectively. Similarly, lambs fed MSC diet had 2.24 g/day and 5.12 g/day higher N retention than those fed SSC and MiSC diets, respectively. The results showed that lambs fed MSC gained more daily weight gain had better feed conversion ratio than those fed MS, SS, SSC, MiS and MiSC diets. The findings of the present study indicated that lambs fed MSC diet had higher nutrients intake, digestibility, nitrogen balance and weight gain.

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Nutrients intake, digestibility, nitrogen balance and growth performance of sheep fed different silages with or without concentrate

Khan

Shahzad

Nisa

et al. 2010

Trop Anim Health Prod

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“…Likhachev et al (2003) recorded higher digestibility in legume-grass mixtures compared to pure crops. Kaiser and Combs (1989) and Azim et al (2000) were also of the view that digestibility of legume and nonleguminous mixture was higher than non-leguminous crop that may be due to inclusion of high crude protein legumes. The main portion of NFE is soluble protein of carbohydrates.…”

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“…Carbohydrates are the main source of balanced diet of livestock but their digestibility is low due to non solubility of proteins but nitrogen free extract included soluble protein of carbohydrates. Azim et al(2000) reported that digestibility decreased by the presence of NDF and increasing the maturing stage. So NFE improved the quality of forage by increasing the voluntary intake due to the presence of soluble protein component of carbohydrates.…”

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Fodder Quality Improvement Through Intercropping and Fertilizer Application

Ullah¹

2018

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Present study investigated the improvement in fodder quality through intercropping of grass (Panicum maximum) and legumes (Vicia sativa and Vigna unguiculata) alone or coupled with fertilizer application under rain fed conditions at National Agriculture Research Center (NARC) Islamabad, Pakistan. In this experiment, intercropping at 33, 50 and 67% of grass and legumes and fertilizer application at the rates of 25, 75 and 50 kg ha-1 (N, P2O5 and K2O) was applied. All three factors in this study not only increased fodder biomass production but also improved its quality. Fodder quality was improved by intercropping legumes with grass during first year of the study. Fertilizer and intercropping combinations proved highly positive, causing significant increase of Crude Protein in grass. The Crude Protein of pure legumes was higher than grass but fertilizer application did not affect to increase crude protein. Intercropping of legumes with grass along with fertilizer improved forage quality Total digestible nutrients (TDN) for livestock in grass were increased when forage legumes were intercropped with grass and when further supplemented with fertilizers. However, increasing effect of TDN was found significant only under combination of intercropping and fertilizer whereas these two factors individually failed to contribute in forage quality.

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“…In silage making, the individual crops of intercropping system should be sown and harvested simultaneously (Stoltz et al, 2013) in order to avoid high cost and to get a good fermentation for both component crops. There are many studies on intercropping systems of maize with soybean (Carruthers et al, 2000;Martin et al, 1998;Serbester et al, 2015), cowpea (Geren et al, 2008;Azim et al, 2000) and bean species (Nurk et al, 2017;Dawo et al, 2007;Armstrong et al, 2008;Stoltz et al, 2013) individually however the studies on comparing legumes are very limited.…”

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Mısır ve Bazı Baklagillerin Birlikte Üretimi ile Silaj Yem Kalitesini Artırma Olanakları

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GÜNAYDIN

Aslan

et al. 2020

Türk Tarım Ve Doğa Bilimleri Dergisi

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Maize is the most cultivated plant for silage making in all over the World due to its many advantages such as producing high yield, suitable for mechanization and easy to ensile. However, the most important shortcoming property of maize silage is insufficiency of protein content. This study was planned for resolving this problem to a certain extent by growing maize with legume in the field as intercrop without any decrease in maize stand. Silage pH was significantly decreased in all intercropping patterns, regardless to legume, compared to sole maize, however, all pH values were enough low indicating a sufficient fermentation has occurred in the silo. Intercropping maize with soybean increased dry matter recovery (DMR), dry matter intake (DMI) and relative feed value (RFV) compared to sole crop maize. The NDF values of intercropped maize were better than that of pure maize resulting increases in DMI. Intercropping maize with any legumes caused an increase in crude protein (CP) content.

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Influence of Maize and Cowpea Intercropping on Fodder Production and Characteristics of Silage

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Nutrients intake, digestibility, nitrogen balance and growth performance of sheep fed different silages with or without concentrate

Nutrients intake, digestibility, nitrogen balance and growth performance of sheep fed different silages with or without concentrate

Fodder Quality Improvement Through Intercropping and Fertilizer Application

Mısır ve Bazı Baklagillerin Birlikte Üretimi ile Silaj Yem Kalitesini Artırma Olanakları

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