ISSN 0259-2517
FAO
PLANT
PRODUCTION
AND PROTECTION
PAPER
161
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Proceedings of the FAO Electronic Conference on Tropical Silage
1 September to 15 December 1999
Edited by
L. t Mannetje
Electronic Conference Organizers:
Caterina Batello, Stephen Reynolds
FAO Crop and Grassland Service
Len t Mannetje
University of Wageningen, the Netherlands
Max Shelton
University of Queensland, Australia
Andrew Speedy
FAO Animal Production Service
with assistance from
Hector Osorio
CIPAV, Colombia
Rome, 2000
Cover photos (clockwise from large photo, left):
Fodder crop of fertilized Sadabahar, a multicut sorghum x Sudan grass hybrid; near Muzzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan (Ian R. Lane)
Little bag silage (LBS) making in the Terai, Nepal - chopping fodder (Napier grass and Centro) with guillotine and knife (Ian R. Lane)
LBS making - squeezing and sealing the first bag layer (Ian R. Lane)
Sampling LBS (Ian R. Lane)
A feed preference trial for cattle fed silages made in plastic drums. The silage in the far trough is unwilted and unchopped while the silage in the near trough is the same source material, but chopped, then wilted to approximately 35% DM. The source material is Rumput Taiwan (i.e. Taiwan grass), a hybrid variety of Pennisetum purpureum. It was approximately 40 days old when harvested (Chris Regan)
Feeding LBS made from Sadabahar to Nili-Ravi buffalo near Muzzafarabad, Pakistan (Ian R. Lane)
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Abbreviations commonly used in the text
Paper 1.0: Introduction to the Conference on Silage Making in the Tropics - L. 't Mannetje
Poster 1.1: The place of silage in ruminant production in the humid tropics - C.C. Wong
Poster 1.3: Basic reasons for failure of silage production in Pakistan - Syed Hassan Raza
Paper 3.0: Use of ensiled forages in large-scale animal production systems - Tom Cowan
Paper 4.0: Grass and legume silages in the tropics - M. Titterton and F.B. Bareeba
Poster 5.1: Little bag silage - Ian R. Lane
Paper 6.0: Silage from by-products for smallholders - Kayouli Chedly and Stephen Lee
Poster 6.1: Tomato pomace and rice straw silage as feed for growing cattle - Rogelio R. Caluya
Poster 6.4: Sweet corn stover silage production - A.B. Idris, S.M. Yusoff and A. Sharif
Paper 7.0: Silage from tropical cereals and forage crops - G. Ashbell and Z.G. Weinberg
Poster 7.4: Tropical maize silage in central Brazil - Raúl R. Vera and Esteban A. Pizarro
Paper 8.0: Harvesting and ensiling techniques - Félix Ojeda García
Paper 10.0: The future of silage making in the tropics - L. 't Mannetje
Paper 11.0: Summary of the discussion - L. 't Mannetje
Paper 12.0: Final remarks and analysis of questionnaire responses - S.G. Reynolds