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Article

Egyptian Clover Genotypic Divergence and Last Cutting Management Augment Nutritive Quality, Seed Yield and Milk Productivity

by
Abdul Jabbar
1,
Asif Iqbal
2,
Muhammad Aamir Iqbal
3,*,
Umer Ayaz Aslam Sheikh
4,
Junaid Rahim
4,
Sadaf Khalid
3,
Rehab M. Hafez
5,
Anees-ul-Husnain Shah
1,
Aftab Ahmad Khan
1,
Muhammad Sultan Ali Bazmi
1,
Ahmad Hussain
1 and
Asmaa A. Hamad
5,6
1
Fodder Research Institute, Sargodha 40100, Pakistan
2
Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan
3
Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Poonch Rawalakot, Rawalakot 12350, Pakistan
4
Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Poonch Rawalakot, Rawalakot 12350, Pakistan
5
Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt
6
Department of Biology, College of Science, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2022, 14(10), 5833; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14105833
Submission received: 26 April 2022 / Revised: 4 May 2022 / Accepted: 5 May 2022 / Published: 11 May 2022
(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Livestock Production and Management)
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Abstract

Under a changing climate, harvesting management and exploiting the genotypic divergence of Egyptian clover cultivars offers a biologically viable solution to sustainably boost the milk productivity of dairy animals. Two multi-season field trials were executed under semi-arid conditions whereby the first experiment aimed to assess the potential of Egyptian clover cultivars (Berseem Agaiti, Anmol and SB-11) for nutritional quality attributes and the digestibility of green forage and hay, forage palatability and milk productivity of buffaloes fed on hay. In the second field investigation, new promising line, SB-11, was tested for seed production potential under varying dates of the last harvesting regimes (10, 20 and 30 March along with 9 April and 19 April) owing to a sharp hike in temperature. In terms of the nutritive value of green forage and hay, SB-11 remained superior for recording the maximum crude protein (CP), ash, fat and nitrogen-free extract except dry matter (DM) content that was exhibited by the Anmol cultivar. Additionally, SB-11 remained unmatched by giving a minimum crude fiber (CF), while Berseem Agaiti yielded the lesser nutritive forage by producing 4% and 2% higher CF than SB-11 and Anmol, respectively. Moreover, SB-11 recorded the maximum digestibility of CP and DM. Furthermore, SB-11 exhibited a 6% and 9% higher palatability along with 8% and 11% higher milk production than Anmol and Berseem Agaiti, respectively. Additionally, 20 March surpassed the rest of the cutting dates by exhibiting 7%, 23%, 50% and 207% more seed yield than 10 March, 30 March, 9 April and 19 April, respectively, indicating quite a pronounced effect of the last cutting management on the seed production potential of Egyptian clover. The research findings suggest SB-11 as a promising genotype for bridging the nutritive gap of quality feed (forage and hay) for buffaloes along with addressing the seed production challenge of Egyptian clover.
Keywords: biomass yield; crude protein; correlation analysis; leguminous forages; palatability biomass yield; crude protein; correlation analysis; leguminous forages; palatability

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Jabbar, A.; Iqbal, A.; Iqbal, M.A.; Sheikh, U.A.A.; Rahim, J.; Khalid, S.; Hafez, R.M.; Shah, A.-u.-H.; Khan, A.A.; Bazmi, M.S.A.; et al. Egyptian Clover Genotypic Divergence and Last Cutting Management Augment Nutritive Quality, Seed Yield and Milk Productivity. Sustainability 2022, 14, 5833. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14105833

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Jabbar A, Iqbal A, Iqbal MA, Sheikh UAA, Rahim J, Khalid S, Hafez RM, Shah A-u-H, Khan AA, Bazmi MSA, et al. Egyptian Clover Genotypic Divergence and Last Cutting Management Augment Nutritive Quality, Seed Yield and Milk Productivity. Sustainability. 2022; 14(10):5833. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14105833

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Jabbar, Abdul, Asif Iqbal, Muhammad Aamir Iqbal, Umer Ayaz Aslam Sheikh, Junaid Rahim, Sadaf Khalid, Rehab M. Hafez, Anees-ul-Husnain Shah, Aftab Ahmad Khan, Muhammad Sultan Ali Bazmi, and et al. 2022. "Egyptian Clover Genotypic Divergence and Last Cutting Management Augment Nutritive Quality, Seed Yield and Milk Productivity" Sustainability 14, no. 10: 5833. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14105833

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Jabbar, A., Iqbal, A., Iqbal, M. A., Sheikh, U. A. A., Rahim, J., Khalid, S., Hafez, R. M., Shah, A.-u.-H., Khan, A. A., Bazmi, M. S. A., Hussain, A., & Hamad, A. A. (2022). Egyptian Clover Genotypic Divergence and Last Cutting Management Augment Nutritive Quality, Seed Yield and Milk Productivity. Sustainability, 14(10), 5833. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14105833

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