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National level e-symposium on “Agroforestry system for augmenting livestock
productivity and empowering resource poor rural farmers”

b. Erythria Sp. Supplementation on Growth

Effect of supplementing leaves of Sesbania sp. In Ruminants.

Livestock
Tree Fodder Supplemental level Response Reference
Species
Sesbania Cattle 1.8 kg fresh tree fodder Growth rate NAS ., 1979
grandiflora + Rice straw equal to feeding
formulated diet
Sesbania Goats 30% dried fodder 7g/kg 0.75/ day Robertson (1988 )
sesban supplementation with Rice
straw
Sesbania Goat Ad libitum fodder 17.1g/kg 0.75/ day Singh et al.,1980
sesban

c. Albizia lebbek supplementation on Intake and Digestibility :
DMIas DMD of whole
DMI through DDMI
Treatment supplement diet
Grass g/kg o.75 (g/day )
g/kg o.75 %
Control 29.50 0 30 141
(Grass )
Grass + 31.7 6.2 38 229
A.lebbek leaves

(Lowry et al., 1994)
Supplemental Value of tree fodders on crop residues

The below experiment demonstrate the importance of high quality forage supplementation to a
conventional basal diet for increasing milk yield and live weight gain in small holding farming systems.(
Alam , and Md. Jahiruddin.,2007 ).

Liveweight gain, g/d
Treatment Milkyield (L/d )
Calves Goats
Grass + 30% forage 2.77 264 62

Grass + rice straw 1.72 177 37

Premaratne (1993) reported that field supplements of G. sepium, Tithonia diversifolia and L. leucocephala
have a significant effect on voluntary intake and digestability of rice straw.

Effect of fodder supplementation on the OM intake and in vivo digestibility and weight gain in sheep.

Institute of Animal Nutrition, Centre for Animal Production Studies, TANUVAS
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