Expert Advisory Details

Advisory for fodder crops

Fodder Crops:

• Cut grasses before flowering and dry for future needs.
• African tall variety of maize and makchari can be sown as catch crops for animal fodder. Sowing berseem, lucerne and oats for fodder of Rabi season also advised.
• Prepare silage out of extra fodder of maize to meet the requirement of fodder during lean periods, especially in the month of December and January.
• The lantana weeds in the grasslands may be cut so that regenerated growth during September can be sprayed with 1% glyphosate for its control Advised to sowing of fodder maize alongwith cowpeas and soybean in irrigated areas. Chari bajra for fodder sowing may be completed.