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Yield and forage quality was estimated for buffel grass, blue panic grass, love grass, napier grass and mott grass was estimated. Mott grass out-yielded all other grasses in terms of plant height (248 cm), number of tillers per plant (96), dry matter yield (22 t haG 1) while love grass was least productive with plant height of 121 cm, dry matter yield of 2.9 t haG 1 and crude protein of 75.3 kgha G1. Mott grass may be regarded as the best choice for high forage yield and crude protein content in the Pothwar plateau conditions.

Abstract:To determine forage yield and crude protein (CP) content in four legume species viz. cowpea, lablab bean, rice bean and sesbania along with a non-leguminous reference crop of sorghum, a study was carried out . The highest dry weight of 4 t haG 1 was obtained from sesbania and sorghum and the lowest dry weight of 2 t haG 1 from cowpea was found. Maximum and minimum heights of 144 and 86 cm were obtained from sesbania and rice bean respectively. The highest fresh matter yield of 17 t haG 1 while the lowest of 9 t haG 1 was obtained from sorghum and lablab beans respectively. The highest crude protein (CP) yield of 581 kg haG 1 was recorded from sesbania.