http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/3210 2013-09-14T13:37:06Z info:eu-repo/semantics/descriptiveMetadata http://oar.icrisat.org/3210/ Preliminary Observations on Livestock Productivity in sheep Fed Exclusively on Haulms from eleven Cultivars of Groundnut Blummel, M Vellaikumar, S Devulapalli, R Nigam, S N Upadhyaya, H D Khan, A Groundnut Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) haulms provide important fodder resources for livestock feeding in mixed croplivestock systems in developing countries (Larbi et al. 1999, Rama Devi et al. 2000, Omokanye et al. 2001). In these systems fodder shortage is considered one of the major constraints to high livestock productivity and its corollary, high income from the marketing of livestock products. Shrinking common property resources and the little or no scope to expand arable land are further limiting the availability of fodder resources in the rainfed semi-arid tropics. These factors are increasing the value of groundnut as a food-feed crop for which both pod and haulm yields and quality traits are important. Improving the productivity of groundnut can address pod as well as haulm traits, but there is a lack of information on the variability amongst cultivars for the fodder quality of their haulms. This work reported here investigated the variability in cultivar-dependent fodder quality of groundnut haulms through measurement of productivity parameters of young sheep. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics 2005 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://oar.icrisat.org/3210/1/IAN_25_54-57_2005.pdf Blummel, M and Vellaikumar, S and Devulapalli, R and Nigam, S N and Upadhyaya, H D and Khan, A (2005) Preliminary Observations on Livestock Productivity in sheep Fed Exclusively on Haulms from eleven Cultivars of Groundnut. International Arachis Newsletter, 25. pp. 54-57. info:eu-repo/semantics/objectFile info:eu-repo/semantics/humanStartPage