Fodder production competition increased due to ever-increasing human pressure on land for the of food crops and hydroponic fodder could be one option commit problem. Five (maize, oats, cowpea, lablab, common bean) seeds with without fertigation evaluated yield laid out in a completely randomized design three replications at Arba Minch Agricultural Research Center during May-August 2019. Shoot l...

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of hydroponics maize fodder on growth and nutrient digestibility weaned piglets from July 1st, 2017 August 11th, 2017, for six weeks. The consisted 75 days old, 15 crossbreed (Duroc x Nagpuri & Duroc) in a Completely Randomized Design with three treatments five replications. Treatment 1 (T1) contained 100% concentrate feed, 2 (T2) 90% feed...

The present study was undertaken to encourage the farmers to cultivate fodder grasses as an intercrop in the areca and coconut gardens. A live demonstration of fodder crops was under taken in 12 villages of Bhadravathi taluk, Shimoga district, Karnataka, to educate the farmers in cultivating perennial fodder grasses in their areca and coconut gardens as inter crops.100 farmers were selected ran...

This experiment was conducted to determine the possibility of replacing part of the barley grain by hydroponic barley fodder (HBF), and evaluating its effect on digestibility, rumen parameters, microbial protein synthesis and blood parameters in sheep. Four male Kermani sheep, 18-month-old (34.7 ± 1 kg live weight) were randomly assigned to a change over 4 × 4 design and fed the experimental di...

In Nepal, maize is currently the second most important staple food crop after rice, having doubled in area over the past 30 years to around 800,000 ha. Due to population increases and increased demand for livestock fodder, demand for maize in Nepal is estimated to grow by 6-8% per annum over the next 20 years, representing a nearly four-fold increase over this period. Although the use of artifi...

background: identifying the potential of livestock and forage plants of each region is a way to compensate the lack of forage, and efficient use of edible resources of the country. milk thistle is a medicinal plant which may be used as fodder for native livestock of khuzestan province. objectives: the purpose of this research was to study  the effects of different levels of milk thistle on rume...

in order to investigate the effects of foliar application with plant growth promoters on morphological characteristics of maize (single-cross 704), an experiment with three replications and sixteen treatments conducted with priming and spraying of growth promoters (organser, mas-raiz, dulzee and control)  as factorial based on complete randomized block design. analysis of variance showed that t...