Claim · model-written summary
Including cowpea and fertilizer increased grass crude protein yield by 61%.
- Taxon
- grassese0
- Treatment
- inclusion of cowpea and fertilizer applicatione0
- Outcome
- Crude protein yield of grassese0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 61%e0
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Verbatim
e0“Crude protein yield of grasses was also increased (61%) with inclusion of cowpea and fertilizer application”
Title
M. Patidar; B.K. Mathur; M. P. Rajora; et al. The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 2008
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- Observation C. mopane had higher growth and survival than H. binata.
- Association Strip cropping and fertilizer affected growth of C. mopane.
- Observation In 2003, L. sindicus plus cowpea gave the maximum green forage yield of 8.99 tonnes per hectare.
- Observation In 2003, L. sindicus plus cowpea gave the maximum dry forage yield of 3.08 tonnes per hectare.
- Observation Sole L. sindicus yielded 8.88 tonnes per hectare green forage in 2003.
- Observation Sole L. sindicus yielded 3.08 tonnes per hectare dry forage in 2003.
- Observation C. ciliaris plus cowpea yielded 8.46 tonnes per hectare green forage in 2003.
- Observation C. ciliaris plus cowpea yielded 2.78 tonnes per hectare dry forage in 2003.
- Observation Sole C. ciliaris gave the maximum forage yield in 2004.
- Observation Across two years, green and dry fodder yields were at par among strip cropping systems.
- Observation L. sindicus plus cowpea had higher protein yield than sole grass strips.
- Observation C. ciliaris plus cowpea had higher protein yield than sole grass strips.
- Intervention effect Applying 40 kg N/ha increased green fodder yield by 10-12% over control.
- Intervention effect Applying 40 kg N/ha increased dry fodder yield by 10-12% over control.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen application increased grass water-use efficiency.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen application increased cowpea water-use efficiency.