Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXII, Issue 1
Written by Selvie ANIS, Charles KAUNANG, Marie NAJOAN, Malcky TELLENG, Poulla WALELENG
Utilization of inorganic fertilizer is more simple but costly and has some negative environmental impact. Livestock waste available abundantly and sometime promote soil and air contamination. The aims of this research was to studied the effects of organic fertilizer utilization on growth, production and quality of two common tropical grasses known as Brachiaria humidicola cv. Tully and Pennisetum purpurem cv. Mott grown underneath mature coconuts plantation. Treatments consisted of two kind of organic fertilizer called “bokashi” based on manure of chicken and ruminant fermented with effective microorganism (EM4). Treatments were put as factorial arrangement based on completely randomized design. The variables measured were dry matter production, quality of forages and predicted carrying capacity. Data was using ANOVA followed by HSD. The results shown all variable were significant higher of both kind of grasses with organic fertilizer at level of 20 tons ha-1. It could be concluded that both species of grasses response positively utilization of organic fertilizer bokashi, but in term of DM and CP content utilization of bokashi based on chicken manure fermented with effective micro-organisms EM4 was better than those of ruminant manure. Utilization of organic fertilizer in form of bokashi could provide forages to ruminant production integrated with coconuts plantation. By that way could be enhance economic value of this integrated systems.
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