Having inadequate roughages in cold areas in Tanzania? Consider forage oat and barley
Proper livestock feeding is key to improving the livestock sector in sub-Saharan Africa. Limited availability of well-performing forage technologies matched with production environment and context is often a constraint to increaseforage quality and quantity for livestock productivity. To contribute...
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| author | Mwendia, Solomon Waweru Nzogela, Beatus Mwilawa, Angello Notenbaert, An |
| author_browse | Mwendia, Solomon Waweru Mwilawa, Angello Notenbaert, An Nzogela, Beatus |
| author_facet | Mwendia, Solomon Waweru Nzogela, Beatus Mwilawa, Angello Notenbaert, An |
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| description | Proper livestock feeding is key to improving the livestock sector in sub-Saharan Africa. Limited availability of well-performing forage technologies matched with production environment and context is often a constraint to increaseforage quality and quantity for livestock productivity. To contribute towards forage technologies for cold areas, weselected four promising small grain varieties and evaluated them in 2020-21. They included two (Conway, Glamis)oat varieties and two (Rihane, Kounouz) barley varieties. In two village sites in Mufindi District in the southernhighlands of Tanzania, we established trials in a randomised complete block design replicated three times. While thecultivars produced similar dry matter yields (t ha−1), they returned significantly different crude protein (CP %), NeutralDetergent Fiber (NDF %) and in vitro organic matter digestibility. Digestibility was in the order Glamis>Conway>Kounouz>Rihane, while crude protein yield (t ha−1) was in the order Glamis>Kounouz>Rihane>Conway. Basedon dry matter and crude protein yields and digestibility, Glamis oat would be the most preferable in the study area andother similar ecologies |
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| spelling | CGSpace1583322025-11-11T19:06:42Z Having inadequate roughages in cold areas in Tanzania? Consider forage oat and barley Mwendia, Solomon Waweru Nzogela, Beatus Mwilawa, Angello Notenbaert, An livestock yield factors forage species Proper livestock feeding is key to improving the livestock sector in sub-Saharan Africa. Limited availability of well-performing forage technologies matched with production environment and context is often a constraint to increaseforage quality and quantity for livestock productivity. To contribute towards forage technologies for cold areas, weselected four promising small grain varieties and evaluated them in 2020-21. They included two (Conway, Glamis)oat varieties and two (Rihane, Kounouz) barley varieties. In two village sites in Mufindi District in the southernhighlands of Tanzania, we established trials in a randomised complete block design replicated three times. While thecultivars produced similar dry matter yields (t ha−1), they returned significantly different crude protein (CP %), NeutralDetergent Fiber (NDF %) and in vitro organic matter digestibility. Digestibility was in the order Glamis>Conway>Kounouz>Rihane, while crude protein yield (t ha−1) was in the order Glamis>Kounouz>Rihane>Conway. Basedon dry matter and crude protein yields and digestibility, Glamis oat would be the most preferable in the study area andother similar ecologies 2024-09-27 2024-10-31T13:00:39Z 2024-10-31T13:00:39Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/158332 en Open Access application/pdf Mwendia, S.W.; Nzogela, B.; Mwilawa, A.; Notenbaert, A. (2024) Having inadequate roughages in cold areas in Tanzania? Consider forage oat and barley. Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics 125(2): p. 159-165. ISSN: 2363-6033 |
| spellingShingle | livestock yield factors forage species Mwendia, Solomon Waweru Nzogela, Beatus Mwilawa, Angello Notenbaert, An Having inadequate roughages in cold areas in Tanzania? Consider forage oat and barley |
| title | Having inadequate roughages in cold areas in Tanzania? Consider forage oat and barley |
| title_full | Having inadequate roughages in cold areas in Tanzania? Consider forage oat and barley |
| title_fullStr | Having inadequate roughages in cold areas in Tanzania? Consider forage oat and barley |
| title_full_unstemmed | Having inadequate roughages in cold areas in Tanzania? Consider forage oat and barley |
| title_short | Having inadequate roughages in cold areas in Tanzania? Consider forage oat and barley |
| title_sort | having inadequate roughages in cold areas in tanzania consider forage oat and barley |
| topic | livestock yield factors forage species |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/158332 |
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