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Cover crop
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Cover crop
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Stylosanthes guyanensis is a leguminous forage plant that is particularly easy to grow and highly favoured by livestock Requiring little maintenance or input, this plant is ideal for improving pastures or even for monocultures. Furthermore, when grown in pastures, it also increases soil fertility. Extensively studied in Cote d'lvoire, this grass has also been tested in Gabon and Cameroon in intercropping with fruit trees and livestock grazing. It showed itself to be a useful cover crop for orchards. Originally from South America, Stylosanthes 9 rows in areas receiving more than 800 mm of rain per year on a variety of soils, even those with poor fertility. For more details, contact: J-L. Messager CIRAD/ IEMVT BP 2572 Yaounde CAMEROUN Stylosanthes guyanensis is a leguminous forage plant that is particularly easy to grow and highly favoured by livestock Requiring little maintenance or input, this plant is ideal for improving pastures or even for monocultures. Furthermore, when... |
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2014-10-02T13:13:41Z
2014-10-02T13:13:41Z 1988 |
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News Item
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CTA. 1988. Cover crop. Spore 16. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/44885 |
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en
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Spore, Spore 16
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CTA
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Spore
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