Volume 9 Issue 2
Yield and quality improvement in fodder oats (Avena sativa L.)
through split application of fertilizer and cutting management
Author(s): A. ALIPATRA, C.K. KUNDU, M. K. MANDAL,
H. BANERJEE AND P. BANDOPADHYAY
Abstract: Green fodder is an important component of
livestock feed and nutrition. In West Bengal chronic
shortage of fodder particularly in winter season (Nov
to March) is a major limiting factor for livestock
production. Generally fodder become available for
livestock feeding in late April as a result of which
both milk and meat production has been reduced.
Winter forage plants can be growth in cool subtropical
environment for increased fodder availability
during traditional fodder deficit period Jehangir et al.
(2013). Oats (Avena sative L.) has severed advantages
are other fodder species because of its high yield
potential, nutrition and high regeneration capacity
particularly during early winter month.
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