Curriculum (PDF) - Biovision

Ensure that maize and desmodium are
properly dried. Well dried desmodium hay
will make good ingredient if available. It is
advisable to make the desmodium hay in
advance before formulating your ration.
(See Season 1, Week 16 Topic 3: Making
and utilizing desmodium hay).
Step 1: Collect and assemble the ingredients
to be used in making the concentrate ration.
Step 2: Chop the desmodium hay into small
pieces.
Step 3: Mix at a ratio of four parts of maize
grain with one part of the chopped desmodium
hay.
Step 4: Mill the mixture into coarse flour,
using a hammer mill.
In situations where desmodium hay and
maize mixture is not accepted by the millers,
you can mill the maize separately. The
desmodium hay can be ground or hand
crushed separately. Thereafter thoroughly
mix the two ingredients as recommended.
Step5: Your concentrate ration is ready for
use or storage. Put it in a gunny bag and
store in a dry place. It is advisable to use
the concentrate ration within 2 months.
Step6: If the ration is used as a substitute to
commercial dairy meal, give 4kgs (2 “goro
goro’”) per milking session for a dairy cow
or 2kg (1 “goro goro’”) for a dairy goat.
What NOT to do:
Benefits (Please keep filling the number of units each week as you cut)
Established Pushpull
plot
Vine-established
Push-pull plot
Do not use rotten maize or store the ration
in a moist place, to avoid aflatoxins.
Type of benefit Quantity Unit market
price
10 Kg Napier grass (1 Unit)
3 Kg Desmodium (1 Unit)
1kg Desmodium hay (1 unit)
5 kg Silage (1 unit)
Milk (litre)
Other benefit
10 Kg Napier grass (1 Unit)
3 Kg Desmodium (1 Unit)
1 kg Desmodium hay (Unit)
5 kg Silage (1 unit)
Milk (litre)
Other benefit
Total value
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