Summary
Meta-analyses have highlighted several advantages of cereal/legume intercropping for food compared to sole cropping, but none report on fodder quality and yield. In forage production, mixtures may more effectively balance fiber and crude protein concentrations of the forage in view of nutrient requirements of ruminants than sole crops. However, productivity, quality and the trade-off between these in cereal/legume intercropping of fodder species have not been systematically reviewed. This paper reports on a meta-analysis of a database of global literature on intercropping of forage-producing cereal and legume crops to evaluate the effect of intercropping on dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP), acid detergent fiber (ADF), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), non-CP non-NDF yields and concentratio
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