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Provedor de dados: | 53
País: | Brazil
Título: | Comparative performance of forage cluster bean accessions as companion crops with sorghum under varied harvesting times
Autores: | Iqbal,Muhammad Aamir.
Data: | 2018-09-01
Ano: | 2018
Palavras-chave: | Animal nutrition; Cyamopsis tetragonoloba Taub; Forage legumes; Strip-intercropping; Sorghum bicolor L.
Resumo: | ABSTRACT Harvesting time and type of accession of forage legumes are important factors to determine their performance as companion crops for cereals. The objective of this multi-year field trial was to evaluate different harvesting times of forage cluster bean accessions sown as companion crops with forage sorghum under irrigated conditions. Treatments included two accessions (BR-90 and BR-99) and four harvesting times (pre-flowering, complete flowering, 50 and 100% pod formation). The BR-99 accession harvested at 100% pod formation had greater performance with respect to green forage yield (20.42 t·ha-1) and dry matter biomass (5.80 t·ha-1) and it was statistically at par within the same accession harvested at 50% pod formation. The highest quality forage with the maximum crude protein and ether extractable fat and lowest crude fiber was recorded by BR-99 harvested at 50% pod formation, while BR-90 did not perform at par at all harvesting times. Harvesting of BR-99 at 100% pod formation also resulted in the highest net income along with the benefit-cost ratio. The harvesting of BR-99 at 50 and 100% pod formation resulted in non-significant differences of forage yields and economic returns, however, the quality of cluster bean forage deteriorated at 100% pod formation thus harvesting at 50% pod formation would be preferred.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0006-87052018000300476
Editor: | Instituto Agronômico de Campinas
Relação: | 10.1590/1678-4499.2017247
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Bragantia  v.77 n.3 2018
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess