<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Evaluation of water productivity, stover feed quality and farmers’ preferences on sweet sorghum cultivar types in the semi-arid regions of Zimbabwe"^^ . "Twenty sweet sorghum cultivars that included 17\r\nimproved cultivars (experimental grain, forage, dual and\r\nIndia released varieties) from India and 3 landraces from\r\nsouthern Africa were evaluated for their use as an\r\nalternative food and fodder crop for crop-livestock\r\nfarmers. The trials were conducted during 2007/08\r\nseason in semi-arid conditions at Matopos Research\r\nStation, Zimbabwe. Three methods of assessment were\r\napplied to help identify suitable cultivars: grain and\r\nstover water productivity (WP), stover feed quality traits\r\nand farmers’ assessment of cultivars in the field. Grain\r\nand stover WP ranged from 0.6 to 2.7 kg m-3 and 1.2 to\r\n4.0 kg m-3 respectively. We observed significant\r\ndifferences in cultivar groups on plant height, time to\r\nmaturity, harvest index, grain WP, nitrogen uptake,\r\nnitrogen harvest index and stover metabolizable energy\r\nand digestibility (P <0.001), and sugar (Brix %) and\r\nstover WP (P <0.05). In the improved grain and dual type\r\ncultivars, grain yield increased by 118% compared to\r\nlandraces and by 69% over the forage type while in the\r\nIndia released variety type cultivars grain yield increased\r\nby 86% compared to landrace yields and by 44% over the\r\nforage cultivars with an increase in stover yield. The\r\nlandrace type was superior to all sweet sorghum types on\r\nfeed quality traits (metabolizable energy and\r\ndigestibility). The farmers’ assessment demonstrated the\r\nneed to combine qualitative and quantitative screening\r\nmethods. The farmers’ combined analysis showed that\r\nforage and grain yield are important parameters to the\r\nfarmers following crop-livestock production systems.\r\nResults of the three methods showed that the dual type\r\nSP1411 was the preferred cultivar. Future breeding\r\nactivities should therefore be directed towards the tradeoff trade off between grain yield potential and stover feed quality\r\nin the quest for developing a wider range of dual purpose\r\ncultivars."^^ . "2011" . . "9" . . "International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics "^^ . . . "Journal of SAT Agricultural Research"^^ . . . "09733094" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "A F"^^ . "Van Rooyen"^^ . "A F Van Rooyen"^^ . . "J"^^ . "Dimes"^^ . "J Dimes"^^ . . "E"^^ . "Mwenje"^^ . "E Mwenje"^^ . . "P"^^ . "Masikati"^^ . "P Masikati"^^ . . "S"^^ . "Homann-Kee Tui"^^ . "S Homann-Kee Tui"^^ . . "M"^^ . "Mativavarira"^^ . "M Mativavarira"^^ . . "J L N"^^ . "Sikosana"^^ . "J L N Sikosana"^^ . . . . . . "Evaluation of water productivity, stover feed quality and farmers’ preferences on sweet sorghum cultivar types in the semi-arid regions of Zimbabwe (PDF)"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "Evaluation_of_water_productivity.pdf"^^ . . . "Evaluation of water productivity, stover feed quality and farmers’ preferences on sweet sorghum cultivar types in the semi-arid regions of Zimbabwe (Image (JPEG))"^^ . . . . . . "preview.jpg"^^ . . . "Evaluation of water productivity, stover feed quality and farmers’ preferences on sweet sorghum cultivar types in the semi-arid regions of Zimbabwe (Indexer Terms)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #4697 \n\nEvaluation of water productivity, stover feed quality and farmers’ preferences on sweet sorghum cultivar types in the semi-arid regions of Zimbabwe\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Sorghum"@en . .