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Guines grass Co-2 a high yielding fodder grass for Tamil Nadu

Volume : 89
Issue: Jan-mar
Pages: 82 - 84
Published: June 17, 2023
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Abstract


A new high yielding guinea grass culture TNGG-5 was developed through hybridisation between Co-1 x Centenario and released as Co-2 for general cultivation in Tamil Nadu. This new variety is shade tolerant, tall growing and profusely tillering. It produces 80-100 tillers per clump and grows to a height of 275 cm. It has more number of longer and broader leaves and non lodging. It has a green fodder yield potential of 270 tonnes ha year'. The dry matter, crude protein and mineral content are higher in the new variety than Co-1.

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82 - 84
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Fodder grass Guinea grass)
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