You are asking how to plant chicory pasture?

Chicory is native to Europe, widely used abroad as feed, vegetables and sugar raw materials, in the eighties after the introduction of our country and cultivated large-leafed varieties of chicory, because of its excellent quality, become the most promising new varieties of fodder and cash crops.

I, the main features

(a) adaptable chicory like warm and humid climate, but also cold, heat. In the hot south of the vigorous growth, in the cold north of the temperature of minus 8C when still green branches and green leaves. In the wasteland, prairie, field, slope can grow, all over the country are suitable for planting.

(2) long utilization period Due to the spring back to spring early, late winter dormancy, as a feed for its utilization period than the general green fodder for a long time, to the Central Plains, for example, if sown at the end of August before winter can be mowed once a year thereafter, April-November can be mowed, and its utilization period of up to 8 months, can solve the problem of breeding industry in spring and autumn and ambient days of the contradiction of the scarcity of green fodder, and a sowing can be utilized for 15 years. 15 years.

(3) disease resistance without insects Chicory disease resistance is particularly strong, it is easy to occur in low-lying flooded areas of rotten roots, but as long as the water is excluded on time is also easy to prevent, in addition to other diseases have not been found. Especially its resistance to pests is unique, chicory has not been found to have infectious diseases.

(4) chicory is widely used, used in aquaculture, because of excellent palatability, all the livestock and poultry and grass carp love to eat; used for vegetables, its leaves are tender, can be fried can be mixed with high nutritional vegetables; it is also the production of edible fungi high-quality substrate: can be extracted from the rhizome of the rich inulin and spices; it is the month of May bloom, the flowering period of up to four months, the flower is purple-blue, beautiful scenery is a good source of honey and excellent plant for greening and improving ecological environment.

(E) forage proud son of China's introduction of a wide range of forage grass varieties from abroad, together with the domestic varieties, the formation of a hundred grasses competing for the trend, but from the yield, nutrition, growth period, pests and diseases and other elements of a comprehensive measure, chicory is not ashamed to be the best of them. For example, in terms of protein content is not as good as Rumex, but the latter is susceptible to aphid damage, and chicory pest-free happens to be its biggest advantage;

Two, cultivation techniques Because of the seed is small, deep ploughing the soil surface should be raked fine and leveled, 3000 kilograms of farmyard manure per acre. Cultivation is not limited by seasonal minimum temperature above 5C can be sown, to April-October is good. There are four methods of propagation: strip sowing, seedling, sowing and root cutting (refer to Rumex chapter for strip sowing and seedling); barren land can be sown after spraying herbicides. The seeding quantity is 120 grams per acre for seedling method, 400 grams per acre for strip sowing and scattering; the fleshy roots can also be cut into 2cm long sections (thicker ones can be cut vertically into several slices) for germination and transplanting, with rows and plants spacing of 30x10cm. watering and quick-acting fertilizers should be applied after mowing.

Three, nutritional value and use of chicory dry matter in the crude protein 15-32%, rosette crude protein content of 22.9% (dry matter), 5% crude fat, crude fiber 13%, crude ash 16%, nitrogen-free leachate 30%, calcium 1.5%, phosphorus 0.24% of a variety of amino acids and trace elements are also very rich. Plants 40cm high can be mowed, stay recommended 2-3cm, acres of fresh grass 2-3 million pounds, can be freshly fed, silage or made into dry powder, feed cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, rabbits, geese, and other animals 35 kilograms can be converted into a kilogram of meat.

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