"4697","17","archive","6",,,"disk0/00/00/46/97","2011-12-02 09:43:04","2016-11-11 09:57:39","2011-12-02 09:43:04","article",,,"show","Library-ICRISAT@CGIAR.ORG",,,"","","","","","","","","","","0",,,"Mativavarira","M","","","","","","","Dimes","J","","","","",,,,,"","",,,,,"","","Department of Research and Specialist Services(Bulawayo)","Zimbabwe","Evaluation of water productivity, stover feed quality and farmers’ preferences on sweet sorghum cultivar types in the semi-arid regions of Zimbabwe","pub","s1.4","","","public",,,,,"We would like to thank Bundesministerium fuer Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit (BMZ) together with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) for funding the work. We appreciate the time and contributions of LT Gono (Windmill-Zimbabwe), M Jumbo (ICRISAT-Zimbabwe) and J Nyamangra
(ICRISAT-Zimbabwe). We also thank BVS Reddy
(ICRISAT-India) for assisting us with the germplasm.
Special thanks go to M Blümmel and Team (ILRI-India)
who carried out laboratory stover quality analysis and
also commented on this paper. We also thank staff in
Sorghum and Millets Research Unit (SMRU) of the Crop
Breeding Institute for assisting in the data collection.","Twenty sweet sorghum cultivars that included 17
improved cultivars (experimental grain, forage, dual and
India released varieties) from India and 3 landraces from
southern Africa were evaluated for their use as an
alternative food and fodder crop for crop-livestock
farmers. The trials were conducted during 2007/08
season in semi-arid conditions at Matopos Research
Station, Zimbabwe. Three methods of assessment were
applied to help identify suitable cultivars: grain and
stover water productivity (WP), stover feed quality traits
and farmers’ assessment of cultivars in the field. Grain
and stover WP ranged from 0.6 to 2.7 kg m-3 and 1.2 to
4.0 kg m-3 respectively. We observed significant
differences in cultivar groups on plant height, time to
maturity, harvest index, grain WP, nitrogen uptake,
nitrogen harvest index and stover metabolizable energy
and digestibility (P <0.001), and sugar (Brix %) and
stover WP (P <0.05). In the improved grain and dual type
cultivars, grain yield increased by 118% compared to
landraces and by 69% over the forage type while in the
India released variety type cultivars grain yield increased
by 86% compared to landrace yields and by 44% over the
forage cultivars with an increase in stover yield. The
landrace type was superior to all sweet sorghum types on
feed quality traits (metabolizable energy and
digestibility). The farmers’ assessment demonstrated the
need to combine qualitative and quantitative screening
methods. The farmers’ combined analysis showed that
forage and grain yield are important parameters to the
farmers following crop-livestock production systems.
Results of the three methods showed that the dual type
SP1411 was the preferred cultivar. Future breeding
activities should therefore be directed towards the tradeoff trade off between grain yield potential and stover feed quality
in the quest for developing a wider range of dual purpose
cultivars.","2011","published",,"Journal of SAT Agricultural Research","9",,"International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics ",,"9pp.",,,,,,,,,,,"TRUE",,"0973-3094",,,,,,"","http://ejournal.icrisat.org/Volume9/Sorghum_Millets/Evaluation_zimbabwe.pdf","http://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?as_q=Evaluation+of+water+productivity%2C+stover+feed+quality+and+farmers%E2%80%99+preferences+on+sweet+sorghum+cultivar+types+in+the+semi-arid+regions+of+Zimbabwe&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt","pub",,"Bundesministerium fuer Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit","",,,,,,"",,,,,,,"",,,,,"",,,,,"","",,,,,"","",,,,,
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