SSG KH-105 is a tall 300–320 cm fodder hybrid, offering 3–4 cuts with 20–25 tons/acre per cut. It flowers in 53 days, has dark green, juicy leaves, and maintains excellent re-growth with strong drought tolerance.
- Hybrid Jowar KH-105
| Plant Height | 250 to 270 cms |
| No. of Tillers / Plants | 3 to 4 tillers |
| Plant texture | Juicy |
| Leaf colour | Green |
| Leaf position | Drooping |
| Date of Flowering | 53-56 days |
| No of Cuttings | 3 to 4 |
| Green fodder Yield per Acre | 27 to 31 tons per cutting (each harvest) |
| Plant Distance | Row to row 45cm x plant to plant 15cm |
This is an medium maturity hybrid, an excellent mullticut tall and fast growing. It has very sweet stem with stay green character.
Everything You Need To Know About Jowar
An excellent multi-cut, tall and fast growing forage crop suitable for pasture, green chop, silage and they can be grown all over India. It gives numerous tillers, stems which are thin, juicy and tasty. Maximum food value is just before the boot leaf stage. It has a high percentage of proteins and digestible dry matter. It is highly palatable and fairly tolerant to pests, diseases. Three to four cuttings can be taken depending on fertility of soil availability of moisture and land set aside for the forage crop.
Tips for better yield
- Seed rate: 10-12 kgs per acre
- Sowing: Summer, Kharif and Rabi (only where the temperature doesn’t go too low).
- Fertilizer: 5 to 6 tons of F.Y.M per acre. N:P:K , 20:24:20 (Basal dose) N.30K (60 kg Urea) after 15 days of germination and 50 kg Urea after every cut.
- Important: Cutting should be taken just before the boot leaf stage cur 4” to 6” from the ground level.
