Fodder crops are crops grown as animals feed. Growing fodder crops for your cattle reduces expenses for purchasing concentrate feeds and provides your animals with adequate nutrients. They are ...

After clearing and readying the land the duo planted various crops like COFS 29, Co-5, Co-3, Red Napier and Lucerne on 10 cents at their own expense with the help of a few local farmers. PERAMBALUR: ...

COIMBATORE: A group of experts from The Forest College and Research Institute at Mettupalayam, attached to TNAU, has recommended to the Coimbatore forest division officials to plant saplings of 10 ...

One way to make a living as a farmer is to grow grass for sale to livestock keepers. Normally animals such as sheep, goats, and cattle graze in the bush eating the grass that there is for them to eat.

Aims Plant root traits affect soil biopore (BP) formation. Aims of this study were to measure the effects of fodder crop species with contrasting root traits and duration of cropping on BP density ...

The diversity of the crop sorghum, a cereal used to make alcoholic drinks, has been decreasing over time due to agricultural practice. To maintain the diversity of the crop and keep it growing farmers ...

These are generally operated by contractors called in to produce quality silage that passes stringent new feed tests that look for consistent and optimum moisture content. “It’s not just baling up a ...

It might sound odd to call a small plot overgrown with grass a museum. But the half-acre parcel of land on the premises of the office of the State Fodder Farm at Valiyathura in Thiruvananthapuram is ...