Agronomy characteristics of several types of sorghum from radiation mutations as a ruminant animal feed provide

摘要

Sorghum plant has the potential to be the forage of the future because of its endurance to drought. The production and its quality quite high with the ability to be harvested several for one planting. This research was aimed to evaluated the agronomy characteristic of sorghum Samurai 1, Samurai 2, Pahat and BMR Patir 37 as feed in the hard dough phase. The experiment was done by using a completeed randomized design (CRD) with 4 types of sorghum and 4 repeated factors. The size of the research field was 2 m × 2 m for each group and was made as many as 16 groups. The distance between each group was 1 m and planting distance for each plant in the group was 25 cm in line. Plants are harvested in the hard dough phase when the seeds cannot be squeezed with fingers. From this research, the results show that based on the agronomic characteristic the potential type for feed production is Samurai 1 which has the production characters such as plant height, stem length, leaf length, leaf width, stem weight, leaf weight, and fresh total biomass that are better than Samurai 2, Pahat, and Patir 37 types.