Potential of Weed As Raw Material for Animal Feed on The Integration of Cattle with Coconut Plantations

Constraints on the use of forage for animal feed in smallholder coconut plantations are product availability and chemical composition nutrients that lacking their production potential is low. The reason this soil under shade not managed intensively. aim study was to evaluate management shaded soils based ability increase products capacity raising cattle. results showed as raw material best obtained system planting patterns sweet corn-long beans-fallow long beans-sweet corn-fallow. cropping pattern found 5 species weeds Poaceae family, 4 broadleaf 2 puzzles with a palatable level category favored very an inedible weight percentage 75.431–98.732%. weed family gave highest contribution total per hectare, which 8.72 kw ha-1 day-1. While lowest bean-sawley-fallow 1.22 day-1 mustard-longbean-fallow 1.31 carrying cattle, before being 0.83 ST ha-1-1.52 ha-1, after it increased significantly, especially corn-longbean-fallow longbean system. - fallow corn 2.612 – 3.87