Evaluation of the Nutritive Value of Selected Browse Plant Species in the Southern Guinea Savannah of Nigeria for Feeding to Ruminant Animals

One of the major problems of ruminant production in the tropics is the scarcity of quality forage all the year round. Gliricidia sepium which remains green even during drought has been extensively used for forage during forage scarcity. However, there is need to screen more browse species to broaden the feed base to improve ruminant animal production. Ten common but less utilized browse plants ( Ficus polita , Ficus cogensis, Daniella oleiveri , Prosopis africana, Parkia biglobosa , Gliricidia sepium , Ecliptaalba , Albizia odoratissima , Polyalthia longifolia and Moringaoleifera ) were Original Research Article

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  British Journal of Applied Science and Technology

• Publication date

  2015-01-10

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Biology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.9734/BJAST/2015/14051
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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