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Year 2024, Volume 70 Issue 4 (15.12.2024)
| Year : | 2024 |
| Volume : | 70 |
| Issue : | 4 (15.12.2024) |
| Authors : | Tatyana BOZHANSKA, Maria GEORGIEVA, Diyan GEORGIEV |
| Title : | STUDY OF MONOCULTURE AND MIXED GRASS AND LEGUME FORAGE CROPS UNDER MOUNTAIN CONDITIONS |
| Abstract : | The aim of the study was to determine the productivity, growth and development of perennial grass forage crop species (Festuca rubra L., Lolium perenne L., Dactylis glomerata L., Phleum pratense L.) grown in sole crops and binary mixtures with Trifolium pratense L., under mountain conditions. It was found that in the sole grasses, the crops of Phleum pratense L. were proven to have the highest yield of fresh (2279.2 kg/da) and dry mass (929.3 kg/da). The excess in the values of the indicators was up to 23.8% and 29.0%, respectively. The lowest productivity was recorded in monoculture crops of Lolium perenne L. In the two-component mixtures, the grasses of Phleum pratense L. with Trifolium pratense L. (2168.7 kg/da) and Dactylis glomerata L. with Trifolium pratense L. (722.2 kg/da) significantly exceeded the yield of fresh and dry mass compared to the mixture of Lolium perenne L. with Trifolium pratense L. by 21.2% and 26.5%, respectively. In the conditions of the Middle Balkan Mountains, the mixture with the most optimal evenness in the height of the grass and legume component is the binary mixture of Festuca rubra L. + Trifolium pratense L. With the greatest difference in the mean values of the trait is the mixture Phleum pratense L. + Trifolium pratense L. On average over the period, the stem height of the forage grasses species in the stand-alone mixtures varied from 32.7 cm to 99.2 cm, and in the two-component mixtures from 35.4 cm to 101.9 cm. |
| For citation : | Bozhanska, T., Georgieva, M., Georgiev, D. (2024). Study of monoculture and mixed grass and legume forage crops under mountain conditions. Agriculture and Forestry, 70 (4): 7-20. https://doi:10.17707/AgricultForest.70.4.01 |
| Keywords : | yield of fresh and dry mass, grass-legume mixtures |
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