S72 : The effect of nitrogen fertilizer (biological, chemical and in tegrated) on quantative and qualitative characteristics of medicinal forage (case study: Surghom and fenugreek additive inter cropping).
Thesis > Central Library of Shahrood University > Agricultural Engineering > MSc > 2012
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Abstarct: To identify the best mixture of sorghum and fenugreek intercropping defines the best forage quality in medicinal forage production. The effect of fertilizing systems on forage quantity and quality is sound. This project was conducted to evaluate the effect of biological, chemical and integrated fertilizing systems on forage quantity and quality in sorghum and fenugreek intercropping. The experimental treatments were arranged as split plots baxsed on randomized complete block design with three replications. The fertilizing treatments consisting of: 1. Control (N0 fertilizer), 2. Biological fertilizer (a combination of Azosperilium, Azotobacter, Rhizobium and Mychorriza), 3. Chemical fertilizer (urea baxsed on soil analysis), 4. 50% chemical fertilizer + Biological fertilizer were assigned to the main plots. The subplots were assigned to different additive intercropping combinations of sorghum and fenugreek viz. 1. Sole Sorghum (weed free), 2. Sole sorghum (weed infested), 3. Sole fenugreek (weed free), 4. Sole fenugreek (weed infested), 5. Sorghum + 50% fenugreek, 6. Sorghum + 100% fenugreek. The results showed that interaction between fiterlizers on cropping systems had significant effects on fenugreek plant height, sorghum dry matter, total dry matter, and sorghum chlorophyll. Indeed, sorghum plant height, fenugreek dry matter, weed biomass, and fenugreek secondry mextabolites were affected by fertilizer and cropping mixture. The highest LER was 1.82 for Sorghum + 50% fenugreek when integrated fertilizing system was applied. The results indicated that the highest dry matter digestibility (64.2%) and protein percentage (13%) in sorghum forage was obtained in sorghum+50% fenugreek when received integrated fertilizer. The maximum dry matter digestibility for fenugreek forage (62.4%) was observed in sorghum+50% fenugreek in biologic fertilizer treatment and the highest fenugreek protein percentage (20.1%) was obtained in sole fenugreek (weed free) when received the integrated fertilizing system. The highest soluble carbohydrate respectively content (8.5%) in sorghum and fenugreek forage (9%) were fund in sorghum+100% fenugreek at biologic fertilizer treatment and sole fenugreek (weed free) at integrated fertilizer treatment, respectively. Overall, the highest forage quantity and quality in sorghum and fenugreek intercropping system was obtained in sorghum+50% fenugreek treatment when received integrated fertilizer.
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#Additive intercropping #Sorghum #Fenugreek #N fertilizer #Forage quantity and quality.
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