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Comparison of Forage Cropping Systems in the Oxisol of Kerala

Volume : 69
Issue: Oct-oct
Pages: 653 - 659
Published: September 30, 2023
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Abstract


An experiment conducted to campare the productivity of a few forage cropping systems and to study the feasibility of mixing cowpea with annual cereals and perennial grasses, in the laterite soils of Kerala revealed that among the grasses, hybrid napier was superior in terms of forage and crude protein yields followed by guinea grass. Mixing cowpea with perennial grasses (hybrid napler and guinea grass) does not appear to be compatible at the normal spacing of the grassos, Cowpea mixes well with the annual cereals (maize and sorghum) but the yields of these crops and crop combinations are comparatively low.

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653 - 659
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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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