Fodder, pasture and green-manure seed for sowing. Each lot gives its seed rate per acre, first cut, cuts per year and sowing season.
Buffel grass for arid and semi-arid rangeland. Deep-rooted, it survives drought that kills most pasture, and it is highly palatable.
An IGFRI annual grass for rainfed kharif fodder. Leafy and palatable, and it handles poor, light soils that would starve maize.
A later IGFRI release with more tillers and a higher leaf-to-stem ratio, so a greater share of the cut is soft leaf.
An IGFRI guinea grass for irrigated and high-rainfall ground. Tall, leafy clumps that you can cut every 40-45 days for years.
A CAZRI Jodhpur buffel grass selection for Thar conditions. Built for sand and very low rainfall, where it gives grazing year after year.
A CSSRI Karnal dhaincha for green manure on saline and sodic land. It grows fast, fixes nitrogen and gets ploughed in before paddy.
A stoloniferous pasture grass that spreads into a dense sward. It handles drought, salinity and grazing better than most grasses.
Hedge lucerne: a perennial shrubby legume that is cut like lucerne but tolerates heavier soils and drier spells. Rich in protein.
A robust, tall guinea grass cultivar with broad leaves. It tolerates partial shade, so it will grow in a coconut or orchard understorey.
The wild ancestor of maize, grown for fodder. It tillers heavily and regrows after each cut, which a single-cut maize crop does not.
An IGFRI Jhansi release for multi-cut fodder. Tall, leafy and resistant to lodging, so the second cut is as clean as the first.
A long-established sunhemp for green manuring on light soils. It will not tolerate waterlogging, which is where dhaincha takes over.
Leucaena grown as a fodder tree. Its protein-rich leaf can be lopped for years, and the wood is useful too. Keep it under 30% of the ration.
A leafy, tall oat bred for fodder rather than grain. Gives two cuts of soft green fodder through the rabi season and tolerates late sowing.
Dichanthium annulatum, the dominant grass of Indian grasslands, in a selected form. For restoring degraded grazing land and gochar.
A soft, palatable perennial grass for high-rainfall and hill country. It stays green into the cool season when other grasses brown off.
A CCS HAU fodder oat with broad leaves and good regrowth after cutting. It holds its protein well into the second cut.
A GBPUAT dhaincha with quick early growth, made to fit the short gap between wheat harvest and paddy transplanting.
A trailing legume sown into standing rice before harvest in the south, so it comes up on residual moisture. Green manure or fodder.
A PAU rice bean for kharif fodder. A leafy, twining legume that is excellent mixed with maize or teosinte to raise the protein of the cut.
Brachiaria ruziziensis: a creeping, leafy grass that grows into a thick, soil-holding mat. It suits grazing on sloping or eroded ground.
An ICAR-CRIJAF sunhemp. As a green manure it builds soil organic matter fast; grown on to maturity, it also gives bast fibre.
A hardy perennial forage legume for dry, poor soils. It adds protein to a grass pasture and fixes its own nitrogen. Scarify the seed before sowing.
A shrubby, very drought-tolerant stylo for the driest rangeland. It stays green longer into the dry season than hamata.
A GBPUAT multi-cut fodder oat for the northern plains. Quick regrowth after each cut and good tolerance of leaf blight.
