Forage Quality Assessment of Herbaceous Species at Benhama, Kashmir

Azeem Raja; Syed Naseem Zaffar Geelani; Arshid H. Mughal; Tariq A. Raja

doi:10.36808/if/2023/v149i4/168615

Forage Quality Assessment of Herbaceous Species at Benhama, Kashmir

Authors

Azeem Raja Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Ganderbal, Kashmir
Syed Naseem Zaffar Geelani Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Ganderbal, Kashmir
Arshid H. Mughal Temperate Sericulture Research Institute, Mirgund, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Kashmir
Tariq A. Raja Wadura, Sopore, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Kashmir

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36808/if/2023/v149i4/168615

Keywords:

Forage, Livestock, Crude Protein, Crude Fibre, Total Organic Matter.

Abstract

Grasses range from extremely persistent long-lived perennials to short lived annuals completing their live cycles, opportunistically, between the onset of rains and the dry season. Determining the nutritional value of forages is important in livestock nutrition, because effective livestock production is related to the amount of nutrients in the forage. The present study was carried out to analyze nutrient of selected forage species in the Faculty of Forestry, SKUAST-Kashmir, Benhama village (Tehsil-Lar, District-Ganderbal). The study identified 9 herbaceous species in their three phenological stages (vegetative, flowering and seeding). The vegetative phase was found to be the best phase in terms of nutritive value. These findings may help the forest managers to schedule grazing in order to coincide the grazing with the most nutritive stage of these species i.e. vegetative stage.

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