Growth of acacia (Acacia mangium) and leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala) grown as hedgerow
2000
Sompong Sruamsiri (Maejo Univ., Chiang Mai (Thailand). Faculty of Agricultural Production. Dept. of Animal Technology)
To compare the influence in growth of Acacia in growth of Acacia (Acacia mangium) and leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala) grown as hedgerow, a group comparison was assigned to 5 replications of these legumes planted on 1*10 m planting bed. During transplanting, seedlings at the age of one-year old were transplanted using the spacing of 1*1 m (two rows/bed) and during harvesting they were cut at 1.50 m high. At the end of the experiment which was concluded for two years (July 1996 - June 1998), leucaena grew apparently faster than Acacia mangium. Other experiment observations measured in terms of the stem height and total yield of leucaena at 6 months after tansplanting were also higher (P0.01). The total yield of leucaena and Acacia mangium were 15,175 kg/rai and 6,031.5 kg/rai with dry weight of 6,753 kg/rai and 2,212.7 kg/rai, respectively. It was also found from the results of the experiment that the chemical composition of Acacia mangium leaves were lower than leucaena especially the protein and dry matter content but the fat content was relatively higher.
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