Intensive fodder gardens for increasing forage availability for smallholder dairy production in Hai District, Tanzania.
1992
Mtengeti E.J. | Urio N.A. | Mlay G.
Presents encouraging first-year results from an on-going study on intensive fodder gardens at four different sites in Hai District, Tanzania. Results for each site are presented in Table 1. Yield of grass or grass-legume mixture were highest from elephant grass plots and lowest from Guatemala grass plots. The legume gave the highest yield when mixed with Guatemala grass and the lowest when mixed with elephant grass. The shading effect of the elephant grass appears to hinder the growth of the legume. With the exception of elephant grass at two sites and Setaria and Guatemala grass at one site each, total herbage yield was slightly (but not significantly) higher from grass-legume mixtures than from sole grass plots. It has been shown that elephant grass is at a competitive disadvantage with Desmodium intortum under regular defoliation. Significant yield differences were found across the four sites. Although the differences observed were partly attributed to site-specific factors, differences in the level of management might also have contributed to the observed results.
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