Description
About Red Napier:
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Red Napier is a multi-cut hybrid green fodder grass that can be used for animals like Cow, Buffalo, Goat, Sheep, Pig, Poultry.
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They are rich source of starch, protein and edible oil.
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Red Napier produces good quality herbaceous fodder and is highly palatable.
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Providing sufficient quantities of fodder to the milch animals will increase of milk production of the animals
How to plant Red Napier
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Red Napier grows best on alluvial, red soils and also grows well on well drained black soils.
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It does not thrive well on heavy soils, saline and alkali soils.
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Sowing time will be best during July to Feburary
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Seed should be sown in lines spaced at 1 feet and width at 2 feet.
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Select good quality Red Napier stems with 2 nodes.
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Plant the stems in the furrows at 45% slope with one node below the soil and one node above the soil
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After planting the stems irrigate the soil throughly
Irrigation for Red Napier:
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Irrigate immediately after sowing and give life irrigation on the third day and thereafter twice a week.
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Red Napier is comparatively more to sensitive to excess moist and stress.
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It requires irrigation every alternative days during summer season
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Irrigation will not be required during rainy season.
How to fertilize Red Napier:
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Red Napier responds well to farm yard manure like cow dung manure and poultry manure
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Apply 2 tonnes farm yard manure per acre before planting Red Napier stems
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In the absence of farm yard manure, it requires 100 kg bio fertilizer per acre.
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Manure / Bio fertilizer should also be applied after 25-30 days of planting the stems
Red Napier after 30 days of planting:
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After 30 days more weeds would have grown in the farm along the the Red Napier stems.
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Weeding has to be done as weeds rob the nutrients that the soil received from the fertilizer applied.
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Hence weeding has to be done in the farm using hand labor or through the mechanized tools
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If necessary, second spell of weeding can be done after 45 days
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After completing the weeding work, Red Napier grass will grow very fast and densely.
Red Napier – 45 days after planting
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After 45 days, Red Napier would have grown by 3 to 4 height.
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Red Napier at this stage will become robust, tufted and has a vigorous root system.
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They will form dense thick clumps, up to 1 m across.
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The leaves will be flat, linear, and hairy at the base, 100 cm to 120 cm long, 1 cm to 5 cm wide and redish-green in color.
Red Napier – 75 days after planting
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After 75 days Red Napier would have grown by 6 to 8 feet.
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Red Napier at this stage can be harvested and can be fed to chickens, ducks, horses and rabbits
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Red Napier is very palatable because the stalks are tender
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Then succeeding harvests are every 60 to 70 days.
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The stalks are cut close to the ground, and in no time, new shoots or ratoon will come out.
How to harvest Red Napier
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Red Napier after 90 days would have grown by 10 feet to 12 feet.
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Red Napier at this stage can be harvested and can be fed to cows, buffalo and horses
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Harvested Red Napier can be shredded using Chaff cutter and can be fed to cattle’s
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When shredded into fine particles, the same could be fed to vegetable-eating fish like tilapia and Pangasius.
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