Agronomical and breeding approaches to improve the nutritional status of forage crops for better livestock productivity

S Chand, Indu, RK Singhal… - Grass and Forage …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Balanced feeding to livestock can effectively convert the non‐edible forage crops into
human food. Balanced output and input feeding systems further will result in greater animal …

Engineered nanomaterials for improving the nutritional quality of agricultural products: A review

Y Sun, G Zhu, W Zhao, Y Jiang, Q Wang, Q Wang… - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
To ensure food safety, the current agricultural development has put forward requirements for
improving nutritional quality and reducing the harmful accumulation of agricultural …

Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of Sorghum bicolor L. under Intercropping with Legumes and Different Weed Control Methods

SV Rad, SAR Valadabadi, M Pouryousef, S Saifzadeh… - Horticulturae, 2020 - mdpi.com
In order to evaluate the quantity and quality of forage when intercropping forage sorghum
(Sorghum bicolor L.) with lathyrus (Lathyrus sativus) and hairy vetch (Vicia villosa), and …

Does grass-legume intercropping change soil quality and grain yield in integrated crop-livestock systems?

LS Silva, JV dos Santos Laroca, AP Coelho… - Applied Soil …, 2022 - Elsevier
In sustainable tropical agriculture, grass-legume intercropping can increase productivity,
enhance the nutritional quality of the crop and affect soil microbiological activity, leading to …

Legumes under drought stress: plant responses, adaptive mechanisms, and management strategies in relation to nitrogen fixation

MS Islam, S Fahad, A Hossain… - … tolerance in crop …, 2021 - api.taylorfrancis.com
In modern intensive farming systems, nitrogen (N) is one of the most abundantly supplied
nutrients to crop plants whereas its suboptimal availability in nature constitutes the major …

Interspecific interactions contribute to higher forage yield and are affected by phosphorus application in a fully-mixed perennial legume and grass intercropping …

Y Bi, P Zhou, S Li, Y Wei, X Xiong, Y Shi, N Liu… - Field crops …, 2019 - Elsevier
Although intercropping is a common technique that has been widely applied, the effect of
phosphorus (P) fertilization on productivity of a fully-mixed perennial intercropping system …

[HTML][HTML] Forage potential of sorghum-clover intercropping systems in semi-arid conditions

N Ashoori, M Abdi, F Golzardi, J Ajalli, MN Ilkaee - Bragantia, 2021 - SciELO Brasil
To identify the optimum intercropping system of sorghum and clover in terms of quantity and
quality of forage yield, a two-year experiment was conducted in a semi-arid region of Iran …

Weeds spectrum, productivity and land-use efficiency in maize-gram intercropping systems under semi-arid environment

RN Abbas, MA Arshad, A Iqbal, MA Iqbal, M Imran… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
To ensure food security on sustainable basis, reducing weeds interference and boosting
land use efficiency are critical. A field study was conducted at research farm of University of …

Revamping ecosystem services through agroecology—The case of cereals

G Sethuraman, NA Mohd Zain, S Yusoff, YM Ng… - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
Globally, farming systems are mostly dominated by monoculture, which has the advantage
of profitability at the expense of ecological systems. Recent years have witnessed an …

[PDF][PDF] Sorghum-based intercropping system for agricultural sustainability

S Maitra, SK Duvvada - Indian Journal of Natural Sciences, 2020 - researchgate.net
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) is one of the important cereals of arid and semi-arid
regions of Asia and Africa. Sorghum is a multipurpose cereal, mainly used as food, feed and …