ADAPTATION STUDY OF IMPROVED FODDER TREE (SESBANIA SESBAN (L.) MERRIL) AT HARO SABU, KELEM WOLLEGA, OROMIA, ETHIOPIA

Negasu Gamachu; Gizahu Wekgari

doi:10.29121/granthaalayah.v7.i8.2019.661

Authors

Negasu Gamachu Oromia Agricultural Research Institute, Haro Sabu Agricultural Research Center, Haro Sabu, Oromia, Ethiopia
Gizahu Wekgari Oromia Agricultural Research Institute, Haro Sabu Agricultural Research Center, Haro Sabu, Oromia, Ethiopia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v7.i8.2019.661

Keywords:

Sesbania Sesban, Dry Matter Yield, Seed Yield, Fodder Tree

Abstract [English]

The experiment was conducted at Haro Sabu Agricultural Research Center, Western Oromia for two consecutive years, with the objective to identify adaptive, high yielding and disease/pest resistance varieties. Seven varieties were grown as experimental treatments in a randomized complete block design (RBCD) with three replications. Analysis revealed that DZ-96 and DZ-123 had maximum percentage of survival rate at one year age 0092 and 0347completely died obtained from in one and two years age. Days of 50% flowering showed statistically highly significant and Mean performance of plant height trait at different ages and seed yield were also significant (p<0.05). Mean green forage yield and Dry matter yield was not significantly (p<0.05) among treatments. But numerically difference was observed among treatments. Maximum fresh weight and sun-dried dry matter yield (DMY) were 84.43 t ha-1 & 27.64 t ha-1 recorded from DZ- 96 followed by DZ-89 and DZ-123 with 18.91 & 18.36 ton ha-1 of sun dried DMY respectively. The best average seed yielders among the tested varieties were recorded from DZ-96 with 47.25 q ha-1 followed by DZ-89 with 46.84 q ha-1. It is concluded that DZ- 96 and DZ- 89 were better performance varieties which are suitable for use as animal feeds.

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