Optimizing nutrient management strategies is crucial for enhancing the growth, yield, and nutritional quality of fodder maize (Zea mays) while minimizing environmental impacts. This study investigated effects innovative nitrogen (N) zinc (Zn) approaches on production. Different combinations fertilizers, including conventional urea nano-urea, were applied in conjunction with targeted foliar spra...

The effect of pelleting fodder on voluntary feed intake and digestibility in sheep was tested with sorghum straw cowpea haulm two forms (chopped granulated). Twenty-four (24) sheep, 18 to 24 months old, Djallonké breed were divided into 4 groups 6 following a random complete block device four (04) treatments as follows: R1= 50% chopped + haulms, R2 = Granulated 1 (50% haulms), R3 maize bran R4 ...

Legume/maize intercropping has been practiced in many countries as a sustainable cropping system, but the effects of legumes with maize together N application rates on biomass yield, quality, water-use efficiency (WUE), and nitrogen use (NUE) are limited under arid conditions Northwest China. Field experiments were carried out areas China from 2019 to 2020 three planting patterns (LM: Dolichos ...

Cannon fodder are expendable soldiers deployed as “food” for enemy cannon fire when there is no hope of ultimately prevailing: generals dispose of “worthless” soldiers by sacrificing them to the cannon. Here, I adopt the term Canon fodder to describe contrarian scientific concepts dismissed because they do not conform to conventional wisdom: reviewers dispose of “unworthy” science by sacrificin...

A pot culture experiment was conducted at the Department of Agronomy, Madras Veterinary College, Chennai, during rabi season 2019 - 2020 to study influence organic manures and synthetic fertilizers on nutrient uptake green fodder yield maize (Zea mays L.). An laid out with two factors three replications. Four manure treatments in main-plots viz., no manure, farm yard (25 t ha-1), vermicompost (...