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Purpose – The main purposes of this paper were to assess effects of smallholder farmers access to livelihood capital (e.g. land, livestock and water) on livestock water productivity (LWP) and to evaluate impacts of selected interventions in reducing livestock water demand (per unit of livestock p...


Haileslassie, AmareBlümmel, MichaelClement, FlorianeIshaq, S.Khan, M.A.[Adapting livestock water productivity to climate change]Adapting livestock water productivity to climate change

Stover quality traits are important in breeding programmes of maize cultivars. However, conventional procedures for evaluation of stover quality are expensive and thus limit the full exploitation of the available genetic variability. Our objective was to assess the potential of near-infrared spec...


Montes, J.M.Mirdita, V.Prasad, K.Blümmel, MichaelMelchinger, A.E.[Feeding quality assessment of fresh maize stover by means of near-infrared spectroscopy with a new sample presentation unit]Feeding quality assessment of fresh maize stover by means of near-infrared spectroscopy with a new sample presentation unit

In the semi-arid tropics, over two-third’s of the world’s people depend on agriculture within which livestock play a major role in building rural livelihoods. Crop residues (fodder/stover) are important feed resources for ruminants. This review was undertaken with the objective of improving under...


Reddy, B.V.S.Sanjana Reddy, P.Bidinger, F.R.Blümmel, Michael[Crop management factors influencing yield and quality of crop residues]Crop management factors influencing yield and quality of crop residues

Cereal crop residues (straw, chaff, etc.) are important components of maintenance rations for ruminant livestock in many parts of the world. They are especially important in small-holder crop-livestock production systems in the sub-humid, semi-arid, and arid tropics and subtropics where most of t...


Hash, C.T.Bhasker Raj, A.G.Lindup, S.Sharma, A.Beniwal, C.R.Folkertsma, R.T.Mahalakshmi, V.Zerbini, E.Blümmel, Michael[Opportunities for marker-assisted selection (MAS) to improve the feed quality of crop residues in pearl millet and sorghum]Opportunities for marker-assisted selection (MAS) to improve the feed quality of crop residues in pearl millet and sorghum

Crop residues from groundnut and sorghum constitute important fodder resources for dairy production and fodder trading on the Deccan Plateau in India. This paper addresses the effect of important diseases of groundnut and sorghum on pod and grain yield and crop residue yield and quality. In four ...


Pande, S.Bandyopadhyay, RanajitBlümmel, MichaelRao, J.N.Thomas, D.Navi, S.S.[Disease management factors influencing yield and quality of sorghum and groundnut crop residues]Disease management factors influencing yield and quality of sorghum and groundnut crop residues

The paper reports on the variations in organic matter digestibility (OMD), organic matter intake (OMI), digestible organic matter intake (DOMI) and nitrogen (N) balances of 40 pearl millet stover fed to sheep ad libitum and investigated relationships between these in vivo variables and morphologi...


Ravi, D.Samireddypalle, A.Khan, A.A.Bidinger, F.R.Nepolean, T.Hash, C.T.Blümmel, Michael[Morphological, chemical and in vitro traits for prediction of stover quality in pearl millet for use in multidimensional crop improvement]Morphological, chemical and in vitro traits for prediction of stover quality in pearl millet for use in multidimensional crop improvement

The effect of different sorghum stover fodder quality in densified total mixed ration (DTMR) feed blocks was investigated. An experimental feed block with a low cost stover was compared with a commercial feed block produced by Miracle Feeds and Fodder Pvt. Ltd. that consisted of a premium sorghum...


Samireddypalle, A.Khan, A.A.Ravi, D.Blümmel, Michael[A comparison of two complete feed blocks based on sorghum stover of two different cultivars on weight gain in sheep and economy of feeding]A comparison of two complete feed blocks based on sorghum stover of two different cultivars on weight gain in sheep and economy of feeding

Maize stover is used to feed farm animals and the improvement of its quality is an important breeding goal. The main objective of our study was to evaluate a new near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy sample presentation unit for measuring feed quality of maize stover. In this context, we investigated ...


Montes, J.M.Montes, J.M.Mirdita, V.Prasad, K.Blümmel, MichaelMelchinger, A.E.[A new infrared spectroscopy sample presentation unit for measuring feeding quality of maize stover]A new infrared spectroscopy sample presentation unit for measuring feeding quality of maize stover

Sorghum stover is a major constituent in dairy feeding in and around Hyderabad, transported over long distances and traded and priced according to perceived stover fodder quality by specialized fodder traders. The work presented here assessed the economics of three feeding regimes: 1) a complete ...


Samireddypalle, A.Khan, A.A.Ravi, D.Reddy, J.Blümmel, Michael[A comparison of Sorghum Stover based complete feed blocks with a conventional feeding practice in a peri urban dairy]A comparison of Sorghum Stover based complete feed blocks with a conventional feeding practice in a peri urban dairy

Haulms from 10 different genotypes of groundnut were tested with growing male sheep for digestibility, intake, nitrogen retention and live weight gains. Very high daily intake levels of > 4% of sheep bodyweight were observed in all haulms. Nitrogen retention (range: 6.7 to 11.4 g/d) and live weig...


Prasad, K.V.S.V.Khan, A.A.Vellaikumar, S.Devulapalli, R.Ramakrishna Reddy, C.Nigam, S.N.Blümmel, Michael[Observations on livestock productivity in sheep fed exclusively on haulms from ten different genotypes of groundnut]Observations on livestock productivity in sheep fed exclusively on haulms from ten different genotypes of groundnut

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