Salt-tolerant sorghum as animal feed

Salt-tolerant sorghum as animal feed

Effects of Feeding Salt Tolerant Sorghum Forage on Performance, Carcass and Meat Quality Characteristics of Omani Sheep

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There is an international need for cheap alternative forage crops that can tolerate high level of soil and water salinity. A lot of marginal and salt affected lands can be used to produce salt tolerant forage crops which might offer a good resource for animal feeding. Sorghum irrigated with saline water up to 9 dS/m of salinity might be used as a source of roughage for feeding sheep without negative effects on health, growth performance, feed intake, body composition, carcass characteristics or meat quality. Salt-tolerant sorghum may be successfully and economically produced under arid conditi...