Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXV, Issue 1
Written by Victor ŢÎŢEI, Sergiu COŞMAN, Valentina COŞMAN, Serghei COZARI
Pearl millet, Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] is a C4 climate-resilient plant species, the sixth most important cereal crop of the world, has great potential as grain and multi-purpose forage for arid and semi-arid ecosystems. We studied some agrobiological peculiarities, the concentration of nutrients in green mass and silage prepared from pearl millet, Pennisetum glaucum, grown in an experimental field of the National Botanical Garden (Institute), Chişinău. It was established that the pearl millet plants harvested in the flowering period contained 200 g/kg dry matter, its biochemical composition was:10.19% crude protein, 3.11 % crude fats, 31.61% crude cellulose, 40.28% nitrogen free extract, 5.45% soluble sugars 1.79 g/kg starch, 14.80% ash, 6.0 g/kg calcium 3.9 g/kg phosphorus and 50.0 mg/kg carotene. The quality of the prepared silage was: pH= 4.08, 25.0 g/kg lactic acid, 7.3 g/kg acetic acid, butyric acid – not detected, 7.42 % crude protein, 3.87 % crude fats, 30.56% crude cellulose, 47.29% nitrogen free extract, 1.55% soluble sugars 1.19 g/kg starch, 10.86% ash, 4.2 g/kg calcium 2.7 g/kg phosphorus and 28.0 mg/kg carotene.
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