Claim · model-written summary
Silage nutritive value of burnt SCT can be further enhanced by ensiling with urea and molasses.
- Taxon
- Saccharum officinarum
Saccharum officinarumt0 - Organ / stage
- burnt SCTe1
- Treatment
- ensiling with urea and molassese1
- Outcome
- silage nutritive valuee1
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Verbatim
t0“sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) top ensiled with or without urea and molasses”
e1“however silage nutritive value, particularly of burnt SCT can be further enhanced by ensiling with urea and molasses”
Title
Kebede Getahun; Mengistu Ashenafi; Assefa Getnet; et al. African Journal of Agricultural Research 2018. doi:10.5897/ajar2017.12888
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Silages made without additive or with molasses had the best scores for smell, color and texture.
- Intervention effect Silages made without additive or with molasses had the best scores for mold appearance and pH.
- Observation The desirable pH of 3.7 to 5.0 was obtained in all sugarcane top silages except green SCT ensiled with urea-based additives.
- Intervention effect Green SCT ensiled with molasses alone had lower total dry matter loss (2.31%).
- Intervention effect Green SCT ensiled with molasses alone had lower silage temperature (26ËšC).
- Intervention effect Silage protein content increased with urea addition (P<0.0001).
- Intervention effect Silage protein content was not changed by molasses alone (P>0.05).
- Intervention effect Fiber fractions (NDF, ADF and ADL) of burnt SCT were not affected by additives (P>0.05).
- Intervention effect NDF increased in green SCT silage with urea based additives.
- Intervention effect ADF decreased in green SCT silage with molasses based additives.
- Intervention effect In vitro dry matter digestibility was highest (53.68%) in burnt SCT silage treated with the urea-molasses mix.
- Intervention effect Organic matter digestibility was highest (48.34%) in burnt SCT silage treated with the urea-molasses mix.
- Intervention effect Metabolizable energy was highest (7.74 MJ/kg DM) in burnt SCT silage treated with the urea-molasses mix.
- Intervention effect Non-fiber carbohydrate content was significantly reduced in green SCT ensiled with urea (8.4%).
- Intervention effect Non-fiber carbohydrate content was significantly reduced in green SCT ensiled with urea + molasses (1.65%).
- Observation Both burnt and green SCT can be adequately fermented and preserved as silage without additive.