technology+options+matrix

On Day 1, participants identified and categorized feed technology options

The resulting table is below:


 * Feed Technologies Matrix**


 * || ** quantity ** || || ** quality ** || || ** seasonality ** ||
 * ** Introducing new feeds (on farm) ** || Green fodder (eg napier) as supplement on extra land (bunds)

High yielding fodder

Demonstrate the potential of under-utilized feed (eg maize stover) ||  || Cowpea or lablab || Forage legume trees ||   ||
 * || Azolla as feed || Over sowing legumes in natural grazing lands ||  ||   ||   ||
 * ** Better use of existing (on farm) ** || Strategic harvesting (topping etc)

Pasture improvement || Chopping of maize straw

Introduce fodder chopper

Improve combine harvesters for better straw recovery || New cereal variety with better straw quality

Urea treatment of straw

Utilizing low quality forage through treatment ||  || Silage making

Feed conservation

Grass silage ||
 * ||  ||   || Enrichment of poor quality roughage

UMMB

Supplement with green fodder

Supplement with area specific minerals ||  ||   ||
 * ** Access more better (through markets) ** || Agro-industrial byproducts

Enriched feed brickets urea + molasses tree forages and minerals

Harvesting grass etc from communal land (as a business) ||  || Compact feed block

Bypass protein

Bypass fat

Bypass starch

Mineral lick block

Balanced cattle feed

Targeted use of bought-in concentrates ||  || Small scale baling technology

Box baler

Complete feed

Urea molasses blocks ||