Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Walp. is a legume tree well adapted to water stress, with high levels of protein in their leaves making it a low-cost strategy for ruminants feeding during drought periods. In northeastern Brazil, gliricídia has been used as food for cattle and sheep in silvipastoral systems as well as silage or hay. It produces high dry matter yields of good nutritional quality being well accepted by ...
An experiment was carried out to evaluate the dry matter production, total dry matter availability, daily dry matter accumulation rate, light interception, leaf area index, daily accumulation rate, dry matter availability of the morphological components (leaf blades, stems + sheaths and dead material), leaf/stem ratio, crude protein, neutral detergent fibre and acid detergent fibre of Faixa-Brancagrass under se...