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Fodder trees: Identification, leaf biomass yield, nutritional quality and socioeconomic importance in Essera district, Dawuro zone, southwest Ethiopia
| العنوان: | Fodder trees: Identification, leaf biomass yield, nutritional quality and socioeconomic importance in Essera district, Dawuro zone, southwest Ethiopia |
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| المؤلفون: | Badege Wondimu, Yilkal Tadele, Andualem Tonamo |
| المصدر: | Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, Vol 18, Iss , Pp 101371- (2024) |
| بيانات النشر: | Elsevier, 2024. |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Agriculture (General) LCC:Nutrition. Foods and food supply |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Essera district, Fodder trees, Nutritional quality, Agriculture (General), S1-972, Nutrition. Foods and food supply, TX341-641 |
| الوصف: | The scarcity of feed in terms of quantity and quality tremendously impacts livestock productivity in Ethiopia. Using fodder trees (FTs) as livestock feed could partially overcome this gap. Thus, the present study aimed to identify species, estimate leaf biomass yield (LBY), evaluate nutritional quality and assess the socioeconomic importance of FTs in the Essera district. The study sites and households (HHs) were selected using a multistage sampling procedure. Data on the socioeconomic importance of FTs were collected from 134 randomly selected HHs. Ten FT species were evaluated for LBY determination, and 15 FTs (including nine FT species) were evaluated for nutritional quality across three agroecologies (AEs). In total, 34 FTs were identified at the species level. The overall mean of LBY of the FTs ranged from 14.32 to 370.94 kg/tree, with the lowest and highest values of 10.85 and 430.27 kg/tree at mid- and low-altitudes, respectively. A significant difference (p |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2666-1543 |
| Relation: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666154324004083; https://doaj.org/toc/2666-1543 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jafr.2024.101371 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/152cca564656443a98a783cb35a790c5 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.152cca564656443a98a783cb35a790c5 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 26661543 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jafr.2024.101371 |