Claim · model-written summary
Black wattle foliage had poor NDF and ADF values.
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Verbatim
e0“poor in black wattle (76.58% and 68.1 %) foliage”
Title
Black wattle (Acacia mearnsii) and the fever tree (Acacia xanthophloea) in alleycropping systems.
Luis Jeremias. Nhamucho ResearchSpace (University of KwaZulu-Natal) 2006
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- Observation Black wattle had better growth and biomass than fever tree associations.
- Observation Black wattle mean ground-level diameter after 12 months was 48 mm.
- Observation Black wattle mean breast-height diameter after 12 months was 36 mm.
- Observation Black wattle total height over the same period was about 406 cm.
- Observation Black wattle fresh pruning foliage with maize and cowpea was about 5.6 t/ha.
- Observation Black wattle fresh pruning foliage with pumpkin was 4.5 t/ha.
- Observation Alleygrazing prunings yielded about 7.66 t/ha fresh foliage.
- Observation Black wattle dry foliage biomass with maize and cowpeas was 1.96 t/ha.
- Observation Black wattle dry foliage biomass with pumpkin was 1.58 t/ha.
- Observation Black wattle dry foliage biomass with E. curvula was 2.68 t/ha.
- Observation Dry matter was 35% of fresh foliage biomass.
- Observation Dry matter was 60% of fresh woody biomass.
- Observation Fever tree growth was not significant during the study.
- Observation P. maximum germinated unevenly across seed lots.
- Observation Pumpkin and cowpea biomass had good NDF and ADF values.
- Observation E. curvula and maize stover had fair NDF and ADF values.
- Recommendation Black wattle fodder should be mixed with digestible fodder to increase intake and avoid tannin hazard.
- Method / resource Regression equations linked tree ground diameter with age and foliage biomass with breast-height diameter.