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Table 4. Stratified fodder-production potential of the best fodder-crops rotations in various regions
(Based on All-India Co-ordinated Project for Research on Forage Crops)
| Best 2-3 rotations at various centres |
Green fodder yield (q/ha) |
| (1) Jhansi |
| 1. Hybrid Napier + cowpea - berseem + sarson |
2,863 |
| 2. Maize + cowpea - M.P. chari - berseem + sarson |
1,972 |
| 3. M.P. chari - turnips - oats |
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| (2) Hyderabad |
| 1. Hybrid Napier + cowpea - Hybrid Napier + cowpea - Hybrid Napier + berseem |
1,334 |
| 2. Maize + cowpea - bajra +cowpea + berseem |
1,267 |
| 3. Madikattujonna + cowpea - jonna (ratoon) + cowpea - berseem |
1,098 |
| (3) Anad |
| 1. Hybrid Napier alone |
2,877 |
| 2. Hybrid Napier + guar - lucerne |
2,529 |
| 3. Maize + cowpea - maize - cowpea - oats - maize + cowpea |
1,685 |
| (4) Kalyani |
| 1. Maize + cowpea - P. pedicellatum - oats |
1,308 |
| 2. Maize + cowpea - rice bean - berseem + sarson |
1,115 |
| 3. Maize + cowpea + jowar + cowpea - oats |
884 |
| (5) Kanke |
| 1. Maize + cowpea - oats - bajra + cowpea |
1,026 |
| 2. Jowar + cowpea - berseem + sarson - maize + cowpea |
960 |
| 3. Bajra + cowpea - berseem + sarson - maize + cowpea |
959 |
| (6) Pantnagar |
| 1. Napier + berseem intercropped and cut at the optimum time |
2,141 |
| 2. Napier + berseem intercropped and cut at the same time |
1,998 |
| 3. Napier + lucerne intercropped and cut at the optimum time |
1,960 |
| (7) Jorhat |
| 1. Hybrid Napier alone |
1,442 |
| 2. Maize + cowpea - maize - jowar - oats |
664 |
| 3. Guinea alone |
607 |
| (8) Hissar |
| 1. Napier - bajra hybrid intercropped with berseem |
2,117 |
| 2. Napier - bajra hybrid + lucerne |
1,760 |
| 3. Berseem + Japan rape - jowar + cowpea - jowar + cowpea |
1,705 |
| (9) Coimbatore |
| 1. Sorghum + cowpea - maize + cowpea - maize + cowpea |
1,107 |
| 2. Maize + cowpea - maize + cowpea - maize + cowpea |
1,060 |
| 3. Guinea grass round the year |
935 |
| (10) Palampur |
| 1. Maize + cowpea - lucerne + oats + sarson |
844 |
| 2. Maize + cowpea - turnip - oats + pea - cowpea |
833 |
| 3. M.P. chari + cowpea - oats + pea - cowpea |
782 |
| (11) Jabalpur |
| 1. Hybrid Napier intercropped with cowpea - berseem and cowpea |
1,761 |
| 2. M.P. chari - cowpea - berseem + sarson - jowar + cowpea |
1,686 |
Some of the cultivated fodder species for different regions are given below :
|
Rainfed |
Irrigated |
| (a) Arid tracts |
Jowar, bajra, moth, guar, lobia |
Lucerne, berseem, oats, maize, jowar, bajra |
| (b) Semi-dry |
Bajra, jowar, lobia, moth, guar, velvet bean, field bean, moong |
Jowar, maize, lobia, teosinte, lucerne, berseem, sarson, turnips, Hybrid Napier, oats, Sudan gras, guinea grass, Setaria sphacelata, Rhodes |
| (c) Semi-wet |
Dinanath grass, jowar, lobia, rice bean, velvet bean, teosinte, sunnhemp |
Berseem, oats, Sudan grass, Hybrid Napier, guar, jowar, maize, para, Rhodes, Setaria |
| (d) Wet regions |
Jowar, Dinanath, rice bean |
Berseem, oats, Hybrid Napier, guinea, lucerne, berseem, sarson, turnips, Hybrid Napier, oats, Setaria , para, jowar |
| (c) Lower hills |
Jowar, lobia, bajra, velvet bean, field bean, guar |
Maize, jowar, oats, berseem, lucerne, Hybrid Napier, Sudan, Setaria, Rhodes |
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