Intercropping of Cereals and Legumes for Forage Production
By H. Eskandari, A. Ghanbari, A. Javanmard. 2009
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Cereals are high important in feeding ruminant animals for their high dry matter production and low cost. However, cereals forage is poor in protein content which shows their low quality and nutritive value. Regarding to high feed costs of protein supplementations, legumes can be used in livestock nutrition for their high protein content and, thus, providing cost saving. Since legumes have low dry matter yield, acceptable forage yield and quality can obtained from intercropping of cereals and legumes compared with their sole crops. In this paper, forage quality indicators and different factors affecting forage quality are discussed. Forage production and quality of different cereals-legumes intercropping are also reviewed, where; different legumes had different effect on forage quality when intercropped with specific cereal. Regarding to forage quality and quantity, different cereals also led to different production of forage. A number of factors which must be noticified in selecting cereal-legume intercropping compositions, especially for forage production, were considered.
Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Forestry
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Citations in the corpus
- Intercropping—A Low Input Agricultural Strategy for Food and Environmental Security (2021, background): “The spatial and temporal crop intensification is done in intercropping and it may be of different combinations of annual and perennial crops as per the choice of the farmers and suitability to the growing conditions [38].”
- Potential of Intercropping System in Sustaining Crop Productivity (2019, background): “Intercropping may be of annual crop with annual intercrop; annual crops with perennial intercrops; and perennial crops with perennial intercrops (Eskandari et al. 2009).”