Planting from vegetative material - cgiar

Planting from seed:
2. use the right sowing rate
Sowing rates of good quality seed should be in the range
of 2-5g per 10m of row. If you use these seeding rates
you will be sowing 40-200 seeds per metre of row. These
sowing rates are a good starting point for on-farm
evaluations. Farmers and development workers will learn
from experience how much seed of different varieties is
needed to ensure good establishment in their conditions.
Smaller seeds (e.g. Panicum maximum) should be sown at
the lower rates and larger seeds (e.g. Centrosema
pubescens) at the higher rates (see Tables on pages 62 and
63). Seed with good germination can be sown at the lower
rates while seed with poor germination should be sown at
higher rates.
A good sowing rate to use when evaluating new forage
varieties is in the range of 2-5 g of seed for every
ten metres of row.
There are some exceptions:
Arachis pintoi: Sow 10-20 seeds per metre of row
depending on the quality of seed. Be sure to test the
seed as the quality of Arachis seed deteriorates quickly
and you may have to increase the sowing rate.
Tree legumes: It is best to grow seedlings in a nursery
first and transplant them.
Panicum
maximum
'Si Muang'
Rice
Stylosanthes
guianensis
'Stylo 184'
Most forage seeds are very small. [JH]
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