Track 2-1-2: Forage Conservation, Value Addition and Balanced Nutrition
Description
Milk production plays a vital role to overcome the nutritional poverty in all aged groups of people. But there are many kinds of constraints to sustainable milk production in Sri Lanka. The biggest problem is high cost of feeding of dairy animals due to high price of compounded feeds, lack of knowledge on methods of low-cost feed supplementation and seasonal fluctuations in ruminant feed resources. Less availability of good quality green forages has led to low productivity from national dairy herd of Sri Lanka during the dry season (Premaratne and Premalal, 2006). Silage production is one of the most popular as well as cheap and effective method of forage conservation to increase the feed availability for dairy cattle during the dry season. Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L) Moench) and CO-3 (Pennisetum perpureum x Pennisetum americarnum) are some of the crop varieties which can be effectively used for silage making. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to find out the effect of different additives on fermentation characteristics of fodder sorghum and CO-3.
Citation
Abeysinghe, Ayesha; Premaratne, Sujatha; and Premalal, G. G. C., "Effect of Different Additives on Fermentation Characteristics of Fodder Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L) Moench] Compared to CO-3 (Pennisetum perpureum x Pennisetum americarnum)" (2020). IGC Proceedings (1993-2023). 7.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/23/2-1-2/7
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Effect of Different Additives on Fermentation Characteristics of Fodder Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L) Moench] Compared to CO-3 (Pennisetum perpureum x Pennisetum americarnum)
Milk production plays a vital role to overcome the nutritional poverty in all aged groups of people. But there are many kinds of constraints to sustainable milk production in Sri Lanka. The biggest problem is high cost of feeding of dairy animals due to high price of compounded feeds, lack of knowledge on methods of low-cost feed supplementation and seasonal fluctuations in ruminant feed resources. Less availability of good quality green forages has led to low productivity from national dairy herd of Sri Lanka during the dry season (Premaratne and Premalal, 2006). Silage production is one of the most popular as well as cheap and effective method of forage conservation to increase the feed availability for dairy cattle during the dry season. Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L) Moench) and CO-3 (Pennisetum perpureum x Pennisetum americarnum) are some of the crop varieties which can be effectively used for silage making. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to find out the effect of different additives on fermentation characteristics of fodder sorghum and CO-3.
