The Effects of Cutting Time on Herbage Production and Quality of Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Meonch.) Cultivated in kahramanmaras Conditions

Authors : Furkan Balcı, Ömer Süha Uslu

Pages : 21-25

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Publication Date : 2024-12-27

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This research was carried out in the trial area of Kahramanmaras Sütcü Imam University, Faculty of Agriculture, Field Crops Department in the summer production period of 2021 to determine the appropriate cutting time of buckwheat varieties to be grown as animal feed in the ecological conditions of Kahramanmaras province. In the study, Aktas and Günes buckwheat varieties were cut at five different times. The field experiment was conducted in randomized complete block design in a split plot with three replications. The research results showed that dry herbage yield, dry matter ratio, crude protein ratio, raw ash ratio, neutral detergent ratio, acid detergent fiber ratio, digestible dry matter value and digestible dry matter yield were statistically significantly affected. It was determined that green herbage yield was between 657.6-995.1 kg/da, dry herbage yield 136.8-298.5 kg/da, crude protein ratio 7.51-15.02 %, crude protein yield 17.14-29.72 kg/da, raw ash ratio 9.93-12.97 %, NDF ratio 53.95-66.46 %, ADF ratio 37.26-50.52 %, RFV 70.60-103.25 and the digestible dry matter yield 72.76-150.17 kg/da were between. It can be said that the most suitable cutting time for forage quality of buckwheat to be used in animal feeding in Kahramanmaraş conditions is the beginning of flowering.
Keywords : Buckwheat, NDF and ADF ratio, Herbage yield and herbage quality, animal feed, protein ratio