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Super Napier – 90 days after planting youtu.be
Normally first harvest can be done after 90 days of planting and can be fed to cows and buffaloes It has other uses aside from fresh feed for farm animals. If there is excess harvest because there are not enough animals to eat the newly cut grass, the same could be shredded and made into silage. The shredded leaves and stalks could also be made into organic…
Super Napier – 75 days after planting youtu.be
75 days old Super Napier plants can be fed to chickens, ducks, horses and rabbits The Super Grass is very palatable because the stalks are tender It has a wide range of adaptability so that many farmers can benefit from it. Harvesting is done at intervals of 60 to 70 days. The first harvest, however, is made three months from planting. Then succeeding harvests are…
Super Napier – 60 days after planting youtu.be
65 days old Super Napier plants can be fed to chickens, ducks and fishes. Super Napier grass at this stage would have grown by 6 feet to 8 feet. Grass at this stage will be very palatable because the stalks are tender It has a wide range of adaptability so that many farmers can benefit from it. Harvesting is done at intervals of 30 days…
Super Napier – 45 days after planting youtu.be
Super Napier grass will become robust, tufted and has a vigorous root system, developing from nodes of its creeping stolons. Super Napier by this time would have grown up to 4 m to 7 m in height. They will form dense thick clumps, up to 1 m across. The leaves will be flat, linear, and hairy at the base, 100 cm to 120 cm long, 1 cm…
Super Napier after 30 days of planting youtu.be
Weeding has to be done in the Super Napier Farm as weeds rob your plants of the benefits of the fertilizer you apply. Hence after 30 days, weeding has to be done for the plants. If necessary, second spell of weeding can be done after 45 days After that, Super Napier grass will grow very fast and densely.
How to fertilizer Super Napier grass youtu.be
2 tons of organic fertilizer is recommended per acre or apply four bags of 14-14-14 fertilizer. 20 days after planting, apply cattle compost manure close to the stems Plow the land deep enough for the plant roots to penetration deep into the ground that make the plant drought resistant. After fertilizing the farm, the plants has to be irrigate well