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APPENDIX
ANALYSIS:
BOMA AND ELMBA RHODES (CHLORIS GAYANA) CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
AND NUTRITIVE VALUE ANALYSIS OF RHODES GRASSES, OF
WHICH BOMA RHODES AND ELMBA RHODES FALL:
THIS DATA
WAS MAINLY COLLECTED FROM LOCATIONS AROUND EAST AFRICAN
REGION.
Table
3: Raw Data for leaf
RHODES
GRASS: DATA
LEAF
CHEMICAL COMPOSITON
|
DM% |
ASH% |
ADF% |
NDF% |
LIG% |
N% |
CEL% |
HEMICEL% |
CP% |
CM% |
|
90.39 |
9.24 |
30.41 |
58.72 |
3.07 |
1.79 |
27.34 |
28.31 |
11.19 |
84.47 |
|
90.43 |
13.78 |
32.44 |
61.80 |
3.86 |
1.80 |
28.58 |
29.36 |
11.25 |
85.21 |
|
90.61 |
14.79 |
37.01 |
64.18 |
3.89 |
2.09 |
33.12 |
33.29 |
13.06 |
86.22 |
|
92.04 |
15.53 |
|
70.30 |
|
2.34 |
|
|
14.63 |
90.76 |
|
92.20 |
|
|
72.64 |
|
2.51 |
|
|
15.71 |
|
|
93.06 |
|
|
|
|
3.00 |
|
|
18.74 |
|
NUTRITIVE
VALUE
|
IUDMD% |
DOMD% |
ME(MJ/K)% |
|
50.19 |
46.78 |
6.50 |
|
57.24 |
53.47 |
7.70 |
|
70.28 |
65.86 |
9.90 |
AVERAGE
59.24
55.37 8.03 |
