East Africa’s grasses and fodders: Their ecology and husbandrySpringer Science & Business Media, 9 mars 2013 - 350 pages The series Tasks for Vegetation Science is devoted to a variety of research aspects in vegetation science, pure as wellas applied. Of the applied problems one of the most pressing is to achieve better knowledge and improvement of the pasture vegetation in tropical and subtropical regions. As series editor I was impressed by the sheer volume of useful scientific information concerning pasture plants from East Africa collected during many years by Dr. Boonman and compiled in one manuscript. Dr. Boonman first came to East Africa in 1963 on an overland journey along the river Nile which took him from Alexandria in Egypt to Lake Victoria in Uganda and Kenya and back again. After a brief spell as a cotton agronomist in the Sudan Gezira he joined the grassland research team at Kitale, Kenya in 1966. Improvement ofseed yield oftropical grasses was his principal interest which finally led him into the fieldof breeding grasses. Well-known varieties from his work include Boma & Elmba Rhodesgrass as wellas Clone 13Elephantgrass. In 1979he was recalled to The Netherlands to head a cooperative seedcompany involved in the breeding of grasses and cereals. The author has focused this study on one region, Eastern Africa.Global application of theories runs into conflicts too easily with local types of farming, if not with bare economics. Very few books can be found that describe existing practices and seek local answers by digging deep in the stacks of old, local reports. |
Table des matières
6 | |
2 | 12 |
5 | 36 |
Primary grasslands of Zones III and IV | 50 |
2 | 62 |
28 | 75 |
SPECIES OF CULTIVATED GRASSES | 86 |
THE ESTABLISHMENT AND HUSBANDRY OF SOWN GRASSES | 128 |
FODDERS | 217 |
ELEPHANTGRASS HUSBANDRY | 235 |
68 | 241 |
69 | 255 |
ELEPHANTGRASS UTILIZATION | 258 |
ALTERNATIVE FODDER GRASSES | 270 |
FODDER OATS | 285 |
OTHER NONGRAMINACEOUS FODDER CROPS | 296 |
GRASS SEED PRODUCTION IN KENYA | 152 |
65 | 168 |
GRASS BREEDING AT KITALE | 173 |
66 | 178 |
LEGUMES IN SOWN AND GRAZED PASTURES | 190 |
3 | 299 |
HAY AND SILAGE | 304 |
Glossary main species | 311 |
339 | |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
East Africa’s grasses and fodders: Their ecology and husbandry G. Boonman Aucun aperçu disponible - 2011 |
East Africa's Grasses and Fodders: Their Ecology and Husbandry G. Boonman Aucun aperçu disponible - 2014 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
agric altitudes applied arable areas Bogdan Boonman Buffelgrass Couchgrass crude protein cultivated grasses density Desmodium digestibility diseases DM-yield drought dry matter dry season early East Afr East Africa ecotypes effect Elephantgrass establishment farmers farming fertilizer fodder crops germination grass grass seed grassland grazing grown growth Guinea Guineagrass harvest interval heading date herbage yield Horrell husbandry hybrid Hyparrhenia Kenya kg/ha Kikuyu Kikuyugrass Kitale Kitale Ann Rep land late-heading leaf legumes livestock liveweight gain Loudetia lucerne maize Masaba Mbarara Mpwapwa N-fertilizer Nandi Setaria natural grassland nutritive value plants ploughing Pokot rainfall rainy season regrowth Rhodes Rhodesgrass rotations rowwidth seed production seed rates seed yield seedlings semiarid Serere silage soil Sorghum sowing sown grasses species spikelets stall-feeding Stargrass stem Stobbs Sudangrass sward Table Tanzania Themeda Tiley tillers tion ton/ha tropical grasses tropical legumes Uganda varieties vegetation vigour white clover Zaïre zero-grazing Zone