Effect of sulphur and zinc on chemical and morphological characters of grasses

Abstract

Improvement of fodder production and conservation technologies among farmers will increase the production & availability of green fodder in term of quality and quantity significantly. NDDB demonstrates cultivation of improved varieties of fodder crops viz. cereals (maize, sorghum, pearl millet, oats, barley), legumes (Lucerne, berseem, cowpea, guar, rice bean, velvet bean), perennial grasses (Hybrid napier, guinea grass, congo-signal grass, para grass) and perennial pasture legume (siratro, clitoria, stylo) and fodder trees (Sheveri, gliricidia, augusthi, drum stick) to farmers / trainees visiting the Fodder Demonstration unit (FDU). Regular training programmes on fodder production and conservation technologies are being conducted for exposure of fodder officers and field staff from different milk unions for fodder development purpose. Hence an experiment was conducted at Main Experiment Station of Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology, Kumarganj, Faizabad (U.P.) during rainy, winter and summer season 2011-2012. In many cases the production of grass for cattle fodder is a valuable intercrop between crops for human consumption, because it builds the organic matter in the soil. Some agricultural byproducts fed to animals may be considered unsavory by human consumers.