Baraa Aswad)1(, Nizar Harba(1), and Walid Alrahmoun(2) (1) Field Crops Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Tishreen University, Latakia, Syria. (2) Animal Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Tishreen University, Latakia, Syria. (Corresponding author: Bara Aswad. E-Mail: baraa.aswad711@gmail.com)
Abstract
The research was conducted in Rumaila village, Jableh, Lattakia for two growing seasons (2015/2016) and (2016/2017). The objectives were to study the productive efficiency of forage mixtures and compare them with single cultivation by studying yields of green fodder, hay, chemical content of hay (crude protein, crude fiber and crude ash). Three forage crops (barley, common vetch and forage pea) were cultivated each separately and together in mixtures of two – and three crops. They were arranged in a random complete block design (RCBD) with three replications. Forage mixtures surpassed individual crops in the unit yield of green fodder and hay, where the binary mixture (barley + forage pea), was the highest value with 15.59 and 8.62 ton/ha, respectively. Forage mixtures also outperformed individual barley in terms of their content of crude protein and crude ash.
Keywords: Forage mixtures, Hay, Barley, Common vetch, Forage pea, crude protein, ash.

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