Aufsatz
Having inadequate roughages in cold areas in Tanzania? Consider forage oat and barley
Abstract
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 increase forage quality and quantity for livestock productivity. To contribute towards forage technologies for cold areas, we selected 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 southern highlands of Tanzania, we established trials in a randomised complete block design replicated three times. While the cultivars produced similar dry matter yields (t/ha), they returned significantly different crude protein (CP%), Neutral Detergent Fiber (NDF%) and in vitro organic matter digestibility. Digestibility was in the order Glamis > Conway > Kounouz > Rihane, while crude protein yield (t/ha) was in the order Glamis > Kounouz > Rihane > Conway. Based on dry matter and crude protein yields and digestibility, Glamis oat would be the most preferable in the study area and other similar ecologies.
Collections
Vol 125, No 2 (2024) (Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics (JARTS))Citation
@article{doi:10.17170/kobra-2024070910495,
author={Mwendia, Solomon Waweru and Nzogela, Beatus and Mwilawa, Angello and Notenbaert, An},
title={Having inadequate roughages in cold areas in Tanzania? Consider forage oat and barley},
journal={Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics (JARTS)},
year={2024}
}
0500 Oax
0501 Text $btxt$2rdacontent
0502 Computermedien $bc$2rdacarrier
1100 2024$n2024
1500 1/eng
2050 ##0##http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/16069
3000 Mwendia, Solomon Waweru
3010 Nzogela, Beatus
3010 Mwilawa, Angello
3010 Notenbaert, An
4000 Having inadequate roughages in cold areas in Tanzania? Consider forage oat and barley / Mwendia, Solomon Waweru
4030
4060 Online-Ressource
4085 ##0##=u http://nbn-resolving.de/http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/16069=x R
4204 \$dAufsatz
4170
5550 {{Tansania}}
5550 {{Futtermittel}}
5550 {{Qualität}}
5550 {{Trockenmasse}}
5550 {{Hafer}}
7136 ##0##http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/16069
<resource xsi:schemaLocation="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-2.2 http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-2.2/metadata.xsd"> 2024-09-30T13:53:25Z 2024-09-30T13:53:25Z 2024-09-27 doi:10.17170/kobra-2024070910495 http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/16069 eng Namensnennung 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ annual forage forage quality dry matter yields 630 Having inadequate roughages in cold areas in Tanzania? Consider forage oat and barley Aufsatz 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 increase forage quality and quantity for livestock productivity. To contribute towards forage technologies for cold areas, we selected 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 southern highlands of Tanzania, we established trials in a randomised complete block design replicated three times. While the cultivars produced similar dry matter yields (t/ha), they returned significantly different crude protein (CP%), Neutral Detergent Fiber (NDF%) and in vitro organic matter digestibility. Digestibility was in the order Glamis > Conway > Kounouz > Rihane, while crude protein yield (t/ha) was in the order Glamis > Kounouz > Rihane > Conway. Based on dry matter and crude protein yields and digestibility, Glamis oat would be the most preferable in the study area and other similar ecologies. open access Mwendia, Solomon Waweru Nzogela, Beatus Mwilawa, Angello Notenbaert, An Tansania Futtermittel Qualität Trockenmasse Hafer publishedVersion eissn:2363-6033 No. 2 Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics (JARTS) 159-165 Vol. 125 false </resource>
The following license files are associated with this item:
Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as Namensnennung 4.0 International