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  2. Alfalfa - Wikipedia

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    Alfalfa (/ æ l ˈ f æ l f ə /) (Medicago sativa), also called lucerne, is a perennial flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae. It is cultivated as an important forage crop in many countries around the world. It is used for grazing, hay, and silage, as well as a green manure and cover crop. The name alfalfa is used in North America.

  3. Forage - Wikipedia

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    Sorghum grown as forage crop.. Forage is a plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock. [1] Historically, the term forage has meant only plants eaten by the animals directly as pasture, crop residue, or immature cereal crops, but it is also used more loosely to include similar plants cut for fodder and carried to the animals, especially as hay or silage.

  4. Sorghum - Wikipedia

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    Sorghum is widely used for food and animal fodder. It is also used to make alcoholic beverages. [12] It can be made into couscous, porridge, or flatbreads such as Indian Jōḷada roṭṭi or tortillas; and it can be burst in hot oil to make a popcorn, smaller than that of maize. Since it does not contain gluten, it can be used in gluten-free ...

  5. Lemna minor - Wikipedia

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    Lemna minor, the common duckweed [2] [3] or lesser duckweed, is a species of aquatic freshwater plant in the subfamily Lemnoideae of the arum family Araceae. [4] L. minor is used as animal fodder, bioremediator, for wastewater nutrient recovery, and other applications.

  6. Cytisus proliferus - Wikipedia

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    Cytisus proliferus, tagasaste or tree lucerne, is a small spreading evergreen tree that grows 3–4 m (10–13 ft) high.It is a well known fertilizer tree.It is a member of the Fabaceae (pea) family [3] and is indigenous to the dry volcanic slopes of the Canary Islands, [4] but it is now grown in Australia, New Zealand and many other parts of the world as a fodder crop.

  7. Flemingia macrophylla - Wikipedia

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    It is a multipurpose plant widely used in agriculture, crop improvement, fodder, dyes and for various therapeutic purposes. Perhaps, it is the most versatile species of Flemingia in terms of adaptation , medicinal and agricultural applications.

  8. Prosopis chilensis - Wikipedia

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    Prosopis chilensis is used as a shade tree and for firewood. The leaves are used as fodder for livestock and the pods and seeds are of high nutritive value and are ground to make an animal feed. [6] Honey bees, and several other species of bee, pollinate the flowers. [7]

  9. Cowpea - Wikipedia

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    Generally, 133,000 seeds are planted per hectare (54,000/acre) for the erect varieties and 60,000 per hectare (24,000/acre) for the climbing and trailing varieties. The seeds can be harvested after about 100 days or the whole plant used as forage after about 120 days. Leaves can be picked from 4 weeks after planting. [33]

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