A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION INTO THE FODDER QUALITIES OF SOME TREES IN SUDAN

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An investigation was made into the fodder qualities of some multi-purpose trees used commonly in Sudan as dry season browse. The standard nutritional characteristics were measured for parts of Albizia lebbek, Azadirachta indica, Leucaena leucocephala, Parkinsonia aculeata, Prosopis chilensis and also ‘Pioneer’ hybrid sorghum. These characteristics, together with previously reported comparable data for Acacia tortilis, Balanites aegyptiaca and local sorghum, showed that nutritive levels for browse trees were higher than for sorghum, the main dry season fodder source. Tree browse is an important source of fodder, particularly towards the end of the dry season, but overgrazing and fuelwood cutting have depleted woodlands and there is an urgent need to plant such multi-purpose trees in order to increase the availability of browse.

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