PENNISETUM
BABALA
PASTURE SEED
A well adapted, good grazing and drought tolerant Pennisetum.
Babala is an annual sub-tropical grass suitable for silage and grazing.
Ideal planting time ranges from October to December.
ANNUAL
SUMMER
PASTURE
GRASS
SUB-TROPICAL
TYPE
50-70 000
SEEDS
PER KG
- Sub-tropical, grass type
- Annual, summer production period
- Adapted to low fertility soils
- Does not cause prussic acid poisoning, good grazing
- Good drought tolerance
- Crude protein: 8 - 17 %
- Digestibility: 52 - 58 %
- Used for grazing and silage
- Widely adapted to most soil types, avoid waterlogging
- Plant during October - December
- Seeding rate: 8 - 15 kg/ha dryland
- Seeding rate: 15 - 25 kg/ha irrigation