POTENCIAL DE PRODUÇÃO DE CAPIM BUFFEL NA ÉPOCA SECA NO SEMI-ÁRIDO PERNAMBUCANO

Abstract

With The experiment was carried out during the dry season in the experimental station of Serra Talhada -IPA, state of Pernambuco. The objective was to evaluate the botanical composition, the availability and the quality of the fodder and the diet of the fistulated animals grazed in a field of differed buffel grass. Twenty-four species of twenty-two genus and twelve families were found in the area of study, and the available fodder varied from 6492 kg DM/ha in the beginning of the work to 3356 kg DM/ha in the end. The buffel grass always participated with over 90% in the different period of studies. The in vitro dry matter digestibility (IVDMD) that was always inferior to 50%, allied to crude protein content, both in the pasture and in the diet of the animals were very low as expected to differed pasture grass.