Abstract
"Biomass Yields and Nutritive Composition of Leucaena Varieties in Irrigated Lowland of Dassench Woreda of South Omo, South-Western Ethiopia"
Highlights
The shortage in livestock feeds is among the factors affecting the livestock production in South Omo
The Sermemiret Kebele from Dassench Woreda was nominated for on-farm experimental trial with vigorous connections with Woreda pastoral office experts
The biomass yields, plant height, branches per plant and nutritive values were analyzed by using the General Linear Model (GLM) and Least Significance Difference (LSD) was used for mean comparison
Summary
The shortage in livestock feeds is among the factors affecting the livestock production in South Omo. The poor-quality feeds and inadequate supply of feed biomass from the grazing-land (natural-pasture) to livestock in South Omo Zone are one of the important element that are contributing to low outputs (milk, meat and growth rates) from the livestock [4,5] It seems that the nutritive values generated from the grazing-lands are seriously affected by dynamics of pasture-forages [5,6]. It was reported that the Leucaena foliage inclusion levels between 500g/kg, DM and 750g/kg, DM can be replaced concentrate diet without adversely affecting the growth and milk production performances in goats [15,16] With this notable potential of species, different Leucaena varieties have not been evaluated under irrigated condition for biomass yields and nutritive values.
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