Adaptable and productive forage legumes and grasses for more intensive small ruminant livestock systems in the Caribbean
Keoghan, J.M. (Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Inst., St John's (Antigua and Barbuda))
The use of well adapted and productive forage legumes and grasses should be the basis of most systems designed to improve small ruminant livestock production in the Caribbean. The Forage Legume Project in Antigua has identified a wide range of grass species and accessions which can be recommended with confidence. Understandably though, very few of the large number of legume accessions tested appear to have all the traits necessary to enable them to withstand not only prolonged periods of moisture stress, insect attack and competition from inherently more aggressive associated grasses, but long periods of mismanagement such as overgrazing by sheep and goats as well.
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