Harvesting maize or sorghum for making silage is ideal when their seeds are soft but not milky when squeezed open. Napier grass, on the other hand, needs to be about a metre high while legumes ...

As the rainy season approaches and farmers prepare for the transition from the dry season, one key area of focus is rangeland ...

On Wednesday, the firm said it had concluded trials for the establishment of Super Napier grass at its forage resource centres, as it sought to enhance the accessibility of fodder planting ...

Juncao grass is a type of perennial fodder that resembles local napier grass but has softer ... It can also produce nutritious silage within just 48 hours, offering farmers like Ms Ruguru a ...

explains how happy he is now that he has planted a type of forage called super Napier grass, acquired a chaff cutter to aid him in chopping the fodder, and built a cow shed, among many other benefits ...

Daniel Kiptoor, a farmer at Ainabkoi, explains how happy he is now that he has planted a type of forage called super Napier grass, acquired a chaff cutter to aid him in chopping the fodder, and built ...

This year has certainly not been a vintage grass-growing year and there is a very mixed bag of silage saved across and within farms. Some of that silage is wet, some is far too dry, there is also ...

Yordanos Anju is a dedicated farmer from the Bilate Zuria district in the Northern Sidama region. For generations, his family ...

Madhya Pradesh , 11th November,2024 -Madhya Pradesh has taken a significant step toward embracing renewable energy by ...

Napier grass for instance, can protect maize crop against this pest. Napier grass is a repellent crop. Stem-borers would lay eggs on Napier grass, but they will not develop to larvae. Planting one ...