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Evaluation of water productivity, stover feed quality and farmers’ preferences on sweet sorghum cultivar types in the semi-arid regions of Zimbabwe

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Title Evaluation of water productivity, stover feed quality and farmers’ preferences on sweet sorghum cultivar types in the semi-arid regions of Zimbabwe
 
Creator Mativavarira, M
Dimes, J
Masikati, P
Van Rooyen, A F
Mwenje, E
Sikosana, J L N
Homann-Kee Tui, S
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description Twenty sweet sorghum cultivars that included 17
improved cultivars (experimental grain, forage, dual and
India released varieties) from India and 3 landraces from
southern Africa were evaluated for their use as an
alternative food and fodder crop for crop-livestock
farmers. The trials were conducted during 2007/08
season in semi-arid conditions at Matopos Research
Station, Zimbabwe. Three methods of assessment were
applied to help identify suitable cultivars: grain and
stover water productivity (WP), stover feed quality traits
and farmers’ assessment of cultivars in the field. Grain
and stover WP ranged from 0.6 to 2.7 kg m-3 and 1.2 to
4.0 kg m-3 respectively. We observed significant
differences in cultivar groups on plant height, time to
maturity, harvest index, grain WP, nitrogen uptake,
nitrogen harvest index and stover metabolizable energy
and digestibility (P
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2011
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4697/1/Evaluation_of_water_productivity.pdf
Mativavarira, M and Dimes, J and Masikati, P and Van Rooyen, A F and Mwenje, E and Sikosana, J L N and Homann-Kee Tui, S (2011) Evaluation of water productivity, stover feed quality and farmers’ preferences on sweet sorghum cultivar types in the semi-arid regions of Zimbabwe. Journal of SAT Agricultural Research, 9. 9pp.. ISSN 0973-3094