Fodder Crops

Super Napier Grass (Pakchong 1): Revolutionizing Livestock Farming in Kenya

Livestock farming plays a vital role in Kenya’s economy, yet traditional feeds have failed to meet productivity challenges. Livestock farmers need alternative options to enhance animal health and productivity. Ordinary Napier grass lacks sufficient protein and energy, resulting in reduced meat and milk production. According to Alex Wanjala, an agriculture expert, Napier grass contains only …

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Tree lucerne: Hardy, nutritious fodder that grows for 30yrs

Farmers growing tagasaste, tree lucerne, can feed livestock for close to 30 years with this hardy, leafy and protein rich fodder shrub. Besides being a nitrogen fixing tree, tagasaste has sweet scented flowers for bees. It is a highly palatable fodder for goats, cows, sheep and other livestock including poultry. Its digestibility is between 77 …

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Intercropping Napier and desmodium raises milk output

Re­search has shown that small­holder farm­ers can in­crease milk yields for their an­im­als by feed­ing them on a mix­ture of Napier grass and Des­modium. Napier grass is a spe­cies of per­en­nial trop­ical grass nat­ive to the African grass­lands. A ma­jor­ity of small scale farm­ers use the crop to feed their an­im­als in the dairy pro­duc­tion …

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