- Jinjwa grass (Dichanthium annulatum) also known as Marvel grass, is a nutritious, traditional grass that’s good for livestock.
- This is multi-cut variety, easy maintenance. Naturally it comes 7 cuts in a year, total duration is 4 years.
- Plant in ploughed plain field; keep 0.5 x 0.5 feet between each row to row and plant to plant distance. Farmer can plant it in a similar way to onion seedlings.
- Crop suitable an anywhere in India. It is a highly preferred grass in our country.
- 200 stems cuts, enough for 1 cent area.
- Before planting we keep irrigation. It an easy way of adaptation crop stems with soil. Life irrigation is must on next day.
- First cut we should take 60 days after planting, subsequent are 25 days once.
- It an excellent and widely used fodder grass much appreciated by all classes of ruminants. In mixed pastures, it’s preferred to all other grasses.
- Crude protein levels are usually low ranging from 2.6 to 10.4% (mostly 4‒6%), largely reflecting the low nitrogen status of the soil. CP digestibility range is 28 to 47%.
- It best irrigation to crop like Drip irrigation, Open irrigation, Sprinkler irrigation & Rain gun irrigation also.
- Best fodder to SHEEP, GOAT, RABBIT, COW, BUFFALO, HORSE and POULTRY.
- An average green fodder yield is 30 t/acre/yr under RAINFED & 50-60 t/acre/yr under IRRIGATED conditions.
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