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Course Name Agronomy of fodder and forage crops
Course Code 25AGR509
Program M. Sc. (Agriculture) in Agronomy
Credits 3
Campus Coimbatore

Syllabus

Theory

Unit I

Adaptation, distribution, varietal improvement, agro-techniques and quality aspects including anti-quality factors of important fodder crops like sorghum, maize, bajra, guar, cowpea, oats, barley, berseem, senji, lucerne, etc.

Unit II

Adaptation, distribution, varietal improvement, agro-techniques and quality aspects including anti-quality factors of important forage crops/grasseslime, Napier grass, Panicum, Lasiuras, Cenchrus, etc.

Unit III

Year-round fodder production and management, preservation and utilization of forage and pasture crops.

Unit IV

Principles and methods of hay and silage making; chemical and biochemical changes, nutrient losses and factors affecting quality of hay and silage; use of physical and chemical enrichments and biological methods for improving nutrition; value addition of poor quality fodder. Fodder production through hydroponics. Azolla cultivation.

Unit V

Economics of forage cultivation, uses and seed production techniques of important fodder crops.

Practical
  • Practical training of farm operations in raising fodder crops;
  • Canopy measurement, yield, Leaf: Stem ratio and quality estimation, viz. crude protein, NDF, ADF, lignin, silica, cellulose and IVDMD, of various fodder and forage crops
  • Anti-quality components like HCN in sorghum and such factors in other crops
  • Hay and silage making and economics of their

Aim of the course

To teach the crop husbandry of different forage and fodder crops along with their processing.

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