Nutritional Value and In Vitro Volatile Fatty Acid Production of Forage Grasses Cultivated Using Farmyard Manure and Desmodium intortum Intercropping in the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia
Table 2
Chemical composition of forage grasses cultivated using various fertilizer treatments at the Guder watershed.
Variables
Ash
NDF
ADF
ADL
EE
CP
GE
% Of DM
g kg⁻¹ DM
Fertilizer treatment (F)
Control
6.2
70.5
42.2a
12.0
2.2b
114.6b
12.7
Desm
6.3
69.1
38.4b
11.6
2.2b
107.8c
12.5
FYM
6.2
68.9
39.3ab
12.0
2.5a
118.9a
12.6
Desm plus FYM
6.2
67.3
38.6b
11.7
2.6a
118.3a
12.5
± SEM
0.10
0.80
0.85
0.52
0.03
2.90
0.14
Forage grass (FS)
Desho grass
6.3a
68.1
39.4
11.0b
1.6b
98.2b
12.8a
Napier grass
6.1b
69.7
39.9
12.7a
3.1a
131.6a
12.3b
± SEM
0.07
0.57
0.60
0.37
0.02
2.05
0.10
Year (Y)
2018
6.1
67.0b
40.2
13.1a
2.3b
114.0
12.6
2019
6.3
70.8a
39.1
10.5b
2.5a
115.8
12.6
± SEM
0.07
0.57
0.60
0.37
0.02
2.17
0.10
Overall mean
6.2
68.9
39.8
11.8
2.4
114.9
12.6
-values
F
0.8773
0.0608
0.0113
0.9128
<0.0001
0.0412
0.5453
FS
0.0109
0.0676
0.5427
0.0031
<0.0001
<0.0001
0.0011
Y
0.0890
<0.0001
0.1983
<0.0001
<0.0001
0.5497
0.6501
FFS
0.3649
0.0208
0.3815
0.7172
0.0139
0.9550
0.3814
FY
0.5003
0.2143
0.2049
0.8463
0.7136
0.0045
1.0000
FSY
0.7808
0.2170
0.5806
0.0015
0.0973
<0.0001
0.9929
Means with different superscripts in a column are significantly different (; Tukey’s test). Control, no fertilizer treatment.
