I have limited land and not enough green fodder for my buffaloes. Which fodder crops and methods give the most green fodder per acre?
How can I increase green fodder from a small area for my dairy cattle?
MMahesh Patel8 महीने पहले · 261 व्यू
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To get the most green fodder from a small area, grow high yielding perennial and multicut crops and stagger your sowing. Hybrid napier grass and napier-bajra hybrids are among the heaviest yielders and keep giving cuts for two to three years from a single planting. Multicut sorghum and fodder maize give bulk seasonally, while lucerne and berseem are excellent legume fodders in winter that also improve milk. Growing a cereal fodder together with a legume gives better protein balance for the animal. Plan a year round calendar so something is always ready to cut, and convert surplus into silage or hay for the lean months. Your local KVK or animal husbandry office can suggest the best fodder varieties for your district.
DDilip Patel7 महीने पहले
Hybrid napier changed my fodder situation completely. I planted it once along the field bunds and canal edge and it gives cut after cut for years with just water and a little manure. It uses space I was not cropping anyway.
RRameshbhai Solanki7 महीने पहले
Mix berseem with a little mustard or oats in winter, it grows thick and the animals love it, and a single sowing gives several cuts through the cold months. Pairing a grass with a legume cut my concentrate bill because the milk held up on better quality green.
JJentibhai Amin6 महीने पहले
Whatever you grow, do not let surplus go to waste in the peak season. I make silage from my extra maize and sorghum and that carries my buffaloes through the dry summer when nothing green is available. Chaffing the fodder also reduced wastage at the manger a lot.
BBhupendra Patel5 महीने पहले
Drip irrigation on my napier plot let me grow much more fodder on the same little patch with less water, which matters in our area. Giving it a little dung slurry after each cut keeps it coming back strong. On a small holding every guntha counts, so feed the grass well and it pays you back.