Features

Intensively cultivated fodder

Fast growing with high herbage yield

More tillers and leaves

Recent varieties have soft leaves and thin stem

Not suitable for hay

Cannot tolerate water logging

]Highly responsive to fertilizer

Ideal to cut between 50 and 55 days as it matures rapidly,bcomes rough if delayed

Method to grow

Soil : Wide range of soils with adequate fertility

Establishment : By root slips or stem cuttings

Seed rate : 27,777 root slips/ha at 60 cm x 60 cm

Fertilizer : 150 - 300 kg nitrogen/ha

Cuts : 5 - 6 cuts in a year

Green fodder yield : 200 - 300 t/ha/year

Nutritive value : Crude protein 9.5 - 19.7 % and IVDMD 68 - 74 %