Improving feed legumes for the central highlands of Turkey.
1995
Firingioglu H. | Karagullu N. | Unal S. | Abdel Moneim A. | Beniwal S.P.S.
In the Central Highlands of Turkey (CHT), characterized by cold winter and dry summers with the extremes of air temperatures, forage crops are still under-exploited as a part of crop rotations. There is a shortage of good quality feed, especially during winter. Half of the vetch in Turkey is located in the CHT, and farmers still use local cultivars that have good adaptability but low yield potential. Therefore, with the aim of identifying and improving the annual forage legume species for the CHT's cold and dry environment, work was carried out under a collaborative Turkey/ICARDA project during the 1992-95 crop seasons. Initial results show that autumn-sown forage legume species had more potential than the spring-sown ones. Hungarian vetch (Vicia narbonensis) also performed better in the autumn-sown over the spring-sown situation. Chicklings (Lathyrus spp.) were also found to be promising additional alternatives to spring-sown vetches, 1033 or bitter vetch (Vicia ervilia), 794 of common chickling (L. sativus) and 812 of dwarf chickling (L. cicera) were considered better than others.
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