Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa Yield and nutritive value of legume residues: Effects of genotypes/harvesting stage Mesfin Dejene ILRI-PhD student, The University of Queensland, Australia. ILRI-N2Africa Annual Planning & Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Validation Workshop 21-23 January 2015 ILRI Campus, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa
Yield and nutritive value of legume residues: Effects of genotypes/harvesting stage
Seed and residue yield (g/plant) of selected chickpea genotypes (DESSI) in Ethiopia during 2014/15 : Effect of harvesting stages
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Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa
Results and implications
There were substantial ranges in laboratory quality and yield related traits between botanical fractions of legume residues and among genotypes.
The preliminary result implies there is considerable potential to increase feed N supply through choice of legume variety and appropriate harvesting stage in crop-livestock systems of Ethiopia.
Optimum utilization of whole plant value needs to be considered
Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa