Improving the productivity of degraded pasture land through demonstration of legume forage over sowing: The case of Ayba pasture land, South Tigray, Ethiopia
| Autor: | Hagos Kidane, Solomon Wayu, Tesfay Atsbha, Girmay Abreha, Kiflom Degf |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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lcsh:GE1-350
geography.geographical_feature_category biology Vicia sativa Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Sowing Forage biology.organism_classification Pasture pasture land vicia sativa Geography over sowing Agronomy Productivity (ecology) south tigray Legume management lcsh:Environmental sciences General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Cogent Environmental Science, Vol 6, Iss 1 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2331-1843 |
| Popis: | The study was undertaken in Northern Ethiopia, at Emba Alaje District, to assess forage yield of the natural pasture over sown with adapted legume forage. The design was a single plot design and the treatments were farmers’ practice and Vicia sativa over sown. A total of 60 quadrats of 1 by 1 m2 size were used for herbaceous species composition, above ground biomass and dry matter yield and analyzed by t-test equal variances using R-software. Over sowing legume forage increased dry matter yield significantly as compared with the farmers’ practice pasture land. The higher dry matter yield was recorded for pasture land over sown with Vicia sativa (3.43 ton/ha). Vicia sativa over sown also increased the basal cover of herbaceous (2.28) compared to farmers’ practice (1.47). Similarly, the Vicia sativa over sown pasture land had significantly (p |
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