Abstract
The experiment was conducted to evaluate the biomass yield and adaptability of five accession with one local check of Sesbania (Sesbania sesban) at Highland of Eastern Hararghe Zone in 2017/18 and 2018/19 G.C cropping season consecutive years on-FTC in Burka Jalala PA. The treatments evaluated were S.sesban 15019, S.sesban 10865, S.sesban 15036, S.sesban 10885, S.sesban 1238 and local check in a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with three replications. The biomass yield, plant height, stem weight, leaf to stem ratio (LSR) were taken at Annual. The analysis result indicated in Table (1) showed that there was significant (P < 0.05) variation among the accession in fresh leaf weight, fresh stem weight and percent of leaf to stem ratio. The results indicated that the maximum fresh leaf biomass yield of the accession S.sesban 1238 (7.91 ton ha -1 ), flowed by accessions S.sesban 10885 (7.23 ton ha -1 ). The results showed that the maximum leaf to stem ratio were recorded under accession S.sesban 10865(28.67%), S.sesban 15019(27.66%) and S.sesban 1238(31.33%). A significant variation (p < 0.05) among the content of total ash and Acid detergent lignin. The maximum Acid detergent lignin obtained from S.sesban 15036(22.746%), and the minimum Acid detergent lignin obtained from S.sesban 1238(14.875%) and S.sesban 10885(14.874%). It was concluded that the accessions S.sesban 1238 and S.sesban 10885 were found promising to be demonstrated under in the study areas and same agro-climatic conditions similar to study area. Keywords : Forage Trees, Quality forage, Sesbania Sesban, Tree legumes DOI: 10.7176/FSQM/106-02 Publication date: March 31 st 2021
Highlights
Livestock and especially ruminants are an essential component of most of the agricultural production systems in sub-Saharan Africa
Dry leaf weight: it was taken after chopping into 5 cm-8 cm length of 200g samples and sun-dried until constant weight for dry biomass and converted tone per hectare based Dry stem weight: it was taken after chopping into 5 cm-8 cm length of 500g samples and sun-dried until constant weight and converted tone per hectare based Leaf to stem ratio: the ratio of dry leaf weight to dry stem weight multiply by 100% Chemical and quality parameters at Annual when the plant ripped well samples were taken randomly from three plants from the net plot for determination of dry biomass yield
All result obtained from treatments of Sesbania sesban un average of 370.17 cm; this showed that have high growth rate and this result lined with the result obtained in one years of plant heights of grand mean 373.29 cm reported by (Negasu and Gizahu, 2019)
Summary
Livestock and especially ruminants are an essential component of most of the agricultural production systems in sub-Saharan Africa. The quantity of natural forages is often insufficient, whereas in the wetter areas, the feed supplies are usually ample but their protein and energy concentrations are low and they are poor quality. In both areas, feed shortages and nutrient deficiencies occur mainly in the dry season and similar to in the study area, livestock is greatly dependent on crop residues for feed and the farmers usually harvest fodder from thinned crop plants, weeds, and defoliated leaves (Kassa, 2003)
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