Claim · model-written summary
The authors advise using tropical forage legumes in silvopastoral systems.
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e0“it is advisable to use tropical forage legumes in silvopastoral systems”
Title
Forage production and quality of tropical forage legumes submitted to shading
Fábio Nunes Lista; Bruno Borges Deminicis; João Carlos de Carvalho Almeida; et al. Ciência Rural 2019. doi:10.1590/0103-8478cr20170726
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- Intervention effect Forage Peanuts yielded more forage in full sun during the water season.
- Intervention effect Under shade, Forage Peanuts did not differ in forage production from Perennial Soybean.
- Observation Forage Peanuts and Perennial Soybean exceeded the other legumes in production at all shade levels.
- Observation Drought-season forage production was 61% lower than water-season production.
- Observation Forage Peanuts had the highest crude protein level, 19.0%, in the water season.
- Observation Tropical Kudzu crude protein was 18.3% in the water season.
- Observation Perennial Soybean crude protein was 18.2% in the water season.
- Observation Forage Peanuts production was reduced by an average of 23.7% in the silvopastoral context.
- Intervention effect Shade at 30% to 50% mitigated water shortage for the legumes.
- Intervention effect Shade did not affect forage quality.