Productive evaluation of 16 varieties of forage sorghum in the south of Honduras

Abstract

The basic grain production is one of the areas of greatest social and economic importance in the country, accounting for 13.3 of the agricultural GDP and generates 300,000 permanent jobs. National Farmers reported sorghum crop underperforming due to lack of new genetic material to suit the agroecological conditions in the areas of planting materials available are dual purpose of Creole origin and poor productivity performance, so the need to have new genetic material accessible to small producers and high production performance characteristics, to help reduce the threat of food and nutrition insecurity in the country's rural communities. The objective of the study was to compare the productive performance of 16 forage sorghum materials postrera during the Experimental Station The Lavish the years 2010 and 2011, to select new varieties of sorghum. Four experimental plots were used with 16 treatments and four replications was used statistical model randomized block design was analyzed forage production, forage nutritional content, days to flower, plant height and grain yield. The strain that showed better performance in forage production was Centa S-3, followed by CI0925 and CI0947 varieties. The strain that produced the most grain was Centa S-3, followed by CI0947 varieties and CI938.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/rct.v0i12.1707

Revista Ciencia y Tecnología, No. 12, junio 2013: 117-128