Study on the effect of variety and seeding rate on growth characteristics and yield of fodder cowpea

摘要

The experiment was conducted to study the growth characteristics and yield of five varieties of fodder cowpea under three seeding rates. The number of branches and leaves/plant were significantly higher in UPC-953. The variety UPC-953 yielded significantly higher over the other varieties in respect of green fodder and dry matter yield. The lower seeding rate gave higher number of branches and leaves/plant, however, maximum green and dry fodder yield was obtained at a seeding rate of 40 kg/ha.