Growth characteristic of dwarf napiergrass on mixed cropping system at established year

Abstract

Abstract Increasing of productivity of dwarf napiergrass as ruminant feed could be conducted with a mixed cropping system with legume such as centro. The objective of this study was to determine the growth character of dwarf napiergrass mixed cropping with centro. The research was carried out for 4 months, by 5 treatments and 4 replications so that it requires 20 plots. The treatment consisted of 100% of dwarf napiergrass as P1; 70% of dwarf napiergrass and 30% centro as P2; 50% of dwarf napiergrass and 50% centro as P3; 30% of dwarf napiergrass and 70% centro as P4; and 100% of centro as P5, respectively. The results showed that the treatments had not significant effect (p>0.05) neither on growth character of dwarf napiergrass and centro, nor chlorophyll. Nevertheless, the treatment showed a tendency increased of plant growth by the increased of measurement interval, not only in dwarf napiergrass but also in centro.

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