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Production Potential of Cereal-Legume Forage Crop Mixture Grown in Rotation

Volume : 65
Issue: Sep-sep
Pages: 572 - 575
Published: October 04, 2023
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Abstract


An experiment to find out the best combination of cereat legume forage crops grown in rotation as compared to the continuous grass cultivation, revealed that sor ghum-cowpeo mixture followed by maize-cowpea successively, and maize-cowpea grown in all the three rotations were found to be more productive and economical. than guinea grass grown continuously. In one year 96.31 and 94.41 t/ha of green fodder were obtained respectively from the above two rotations, with a net return of Rs. 5,835/- and Rs. 5010/- from them.

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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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