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African Tall

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Season : Throughout the year for fodder in all districts under irrigated condition.

Varieties : Composite/hybrids: African Tall, Ganga 5

Yield Potential and Quality Characters

Characters African Tall

Green fodder yield (t/ha) 42.00

Crude protein (%) 9.80

Dry matter (%) 17.65

Plant height (cm) 302.00

Number of leaves 13.30

Leaf length (cm) 81.30

Leaf breadth (cm) 8.15Stem thickness (cm) 1.77



Leaf-stem ratio 0.21

PREPARATORY CULTIVATION

1. PLOUGHING

Plough the field twice with an iron plough and three or four times with country plough.

2. APPLICATION OF FYM

Apply and spread FYM or compost at 25 t/ha on unploughed field along with 10 packets ofAzospirillum (2000 g) and 10 packets of Phosphobacteria (2000g) inoculum or 20packets of Azophos

(4000g)and incorporate the manure into the soil during ploughing.

3. FORMING RIDGES AND FURROWS

Form ridges and furrows using a ridger, 30 cm apart are form beds of size 10 m2 or 20 m

2 depending

on the availability of water and slope of the land.

4. APPLICATION OF FERTILIZERS

Apply NPK fertilizers as per soil test recommendation as for as possible. If soil testing is not done,follow blanket recommendation of 30 : 40 : 20 kg N, P2O5 and K2 O / ha. Apply 30 kg N/ha at 30

days after sowing as top dressing.

5. SOWING

Spacing : 30 x 15 cm, Seed rate : 40 kg/ha Treat the seeds with 3 packets (600 g) Azospirillum inoculant and 3 packets (600 g) of

phosphobacteria or 6 packets of Azophos (1200g)before sowing

6. WATER MANAGEMENT Irrigate immediately after sowing and give life irrigation on the third day and thereafter once in 10

days.

7. WEED MANAGEMENT

Hoeing and weeding are done as and when necessary.

8. HARVESTING

Harvest the crop when the cob is in the milky stage.



Note:* Fodder Maize can be intercropped with CO 5 or COFC 8 Cowpea at 3:1 ratio and harvested together

to provide nutritious fodder.

TNAU vermicompost at 5 t/ha + 75% recommended dose of fertilizer for intercropping ofmaize and cowpea produces green fodder yield of 105 t/ha/yr ( 3 crops/ year) which is

sufficient to maintain 7 adults and 3 young cattles. The dung obtained from these animals can be used for on farm production of 19.4 tonnes of vermicompost per year.

SEED PRODUCTION

LAND REQUIREMENT

Land should be free from volunteer plant

ISOLATION

Adopt 200 m for certified seed production

SPACING

Adopt 60 x 20 cm

FERTILIZER

Apply NPK @ 175 : 90 : 90 kg ha-1 + 25 kg ZnSO4 ha-1 as basal application

HARVEST

Seeds attained physiological maturity on 40th day after anthesis. (Anthesis is the period

during which a flower is fully open and functional)

SEED TREATMENT

Treat the seeds with Captan @ 2g/kg + Carbaryl @ 200mg/kg-1 of seeds

STORAGE

Treated seeds can be stored upto 1 year under insect free condition Use gunny or cloth bags for short term storage with seed moisture content of 10 - 12% Use polylined gunny bag for medium term storage with seed moisture content of 8 - 10%

Use 700 gauge polythene bag for long term storage with seed moisture content of Less than8%.

OTHER MANAGEMENT PRACTICES

As in crop management technique



Availability / Cost

Venkatadasa Imports andj Exports Pvt Ltd

H/o - Chilakalurpet, Guntur, AP

Crop Maize

Variety African tall

Moisture 12%

MRP 385/-

Net Wt 7 Kg

As on 01/07/2012

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