Production and nutritional characteristics of sunflowers and paiaguas palisadegrass under different forage systems in the off season

Authors

  • Charles Barbosa Santos Instituto Federal Goiano, Campus Rio Verde
  • Kátia Aparecida de Pinho Costa Instituto Federal Goiano, Campus Rio Verde
  • Itamar Pereira de Oliveira Instituto Federal Goiano, Campus Rio Verde
  • Eduardo da Costa Severiano Instituto Federal Goiano, Campus Rio Verde
  • Raoni Ribeiro Guedes Fonseca Costa Universidade Estadual de Goiás
  • Alessandro Guerra da Silva Universidade de Rio Verde
  • Analu Guarnieri Instituto Federal Goiano, Campus Rio Verde
  • Jessika Torres da Silva Instituto Federal Goiano, Campus Rio Verde

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14393/10.14393/BJ-v32n2a2016-29753

Keywords:

Brachiaria brizantha, Helianthus annuus L., crop-livestock integration

Abstract

The high efficiency of sunflowers in extracting water from the soil under water stress conditions is a factor that promotes sunflower cultivation in the offseason. Therefore, sunflowers have been intercropped with grasses of the Brachiaria genus in crop-livestock integration systems. However, little is known of sowing methods for intercropping; thus, the present study aimed to assess sunflower agronomic traits and the production and nutritional characteristics of Paiaguas palisadegrass under different forage systems in the offseason in the midwest region of Brazil. The experiment was conducted at the Federal Institute of Goiás (Instituto Federal Goiano), Rio Verde Campus in a randomized block experimental design with four replicates. The treatments consisted of the following forage systems: sunflower monocropped; Paiaguas palisadegrass monocropped; sunflower rows intercropped with Paiaguas palisadegrass; sunflower inter-row intercropped with Paiaguas palisadegrass; and sunflower oversown and intercropped with Paiaguas palisadegrass. The results show that the sunflower rows intercropped with Paiaguas palisadegrass negatively affect the agronomic traits of sunflower; thus, inter-row sowing and oversowing are recommended. Sowing Paiaguas palisadegrass with oversown sunflower for forage production is hampered by intercropping and shows low forage production. In turn, the intercropped sowing method had no effect on the nutritional characteristics of the produced forage. Intercropping sunflowers with Paiaguas palisadegrass in the offseason has the potential to provide a promising cropping method for the production of achenes and after harvest enables the availability of forage with good nutritional value for use in the offseason in the midwest region of Brazil.

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Author Biographies

Charles Barbosa Santos, Instituto Federal Goiano, Campus Rio Verde

Doutorando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Agrárias - Instituto Federal Goiano, Campus Rio Verde

Kátia Aparecida de Pinho Costa, Instituto Federal Goiano, Campus Rio Verde

Professora dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Zootecnia e Ciências Agrárias - Instituto Federal Goiano, Campus Rio Verde

Itamar Pereira de Oliveira, Instituto Federal Goiano, Campus Rio Verde

Pesquisador visitante do Instituto Federal Goiano, Campus Rio Verde

Eduardo da Costa Severiano, Instituto Federal Goiano, Campus Rio Verde

Professor dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Zootecnia e Ciências Agrárias - Instituto Federal Goiano, Campus Rio Verde

Raoni Ribeiro Guedes Fonseca Costa, Universidade Estadual de Goiás

Doutorando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Agrárias - Instituto Federal Goiano, Campus Rio Verde

Alessandro Guerra da Silva, Universidade de Rio Verde

Professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Produção Vegetal da Universidade de Rio Verde

Analu Guarnieri, Instituto Federal Goiano, Campus Rio Verde

Doutoranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Agrárias - Instituto Federal Goiano, Campus Rio Verde

Jessika Torres da Silva, Instituto Federal Goiano, Campus Rio Verde

Mestranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zootecnia - Instituto Federal Goiano, Campus Rio Verde

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Published

2016-04-04

How to Cite

SANTOS, C.B., COSTA, K.A. de P., DE OLIVEIRA, I.P., SEVERIANO, E. da C., COSTA, R.R.G.F., DA SILVA, A.G., GUARNIERI, A. and DA SILVA, J.T., 2016. Production and nutritional characteristics of sunflowers and paiaguas palisadegrass under different forage systems in the off season . Bioscience Journal [online], vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 460–470. [Accessed22 November 2024]. DOI 10.14393/10.14393/BJ-v32n2a2016-29753. Available from: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/biosciencejournal/article/view/29753.

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Agricultural Sciences