(a) Complete the table below on forage crops
| Botanical name | Common name | Types of forage |
| Pennisetum purpureum | (i) | Grass |
| Calopogonium mucunoides | (ii) | (iii) |
| (iv) | stylo | (v) |
| Panicum maxinium | (vi) | (vii) |
| Mucuna utilis | (viii) | Legume |
(b)i. Define the term pasture
ii. State four ways in which grass-legume mixture is important in livestock production
(c) State six characteristics of rangelands
Explanation
(a) Completion of Table on Forage:
(i) Elephant grass
(ii) Calopo/calopogomium
(iii) Legume
(iv) Stylosanthesgracilis/guinansis/hamata/humilis/scabia
(v) Legume
(vi) Guinea grass
(vi) Grass
(viii) Macuna
(b)(i) Definition of pasture: A piece of land on which grass and/ or legumes/herbage species are naturally found or deliberately grown for feeding livestock.
(ii) Importance of grass-legume mixture in livestock production:
- Provide a variety of forage.
- Provides high nutrient content balanced diet.
- Conserves soil water/ reduces evaporation.
- Grass improves soil structure.
- Control erosion.
- Yield of pasture is improved.
- Legumes supply nitrogen to the soil, thus enriching it.
- lncreases the energy level for livestock/food.
- Suppresses the growth of weeds.
- Forage combination is more acceptable to animals.
- Improves the nutrient level of forage.
(c) Characteristics of rangeland;
- Contains a variety of forage.
- Provides shade for animals.
- Can withstand trampling by farm animals
- High regenerative ability.
- Produces high yield of forage crops if properly managed.
- Habours disease
- Labour
- Labours pests.
- Extensive area of land for grazing/high density.
- Produces abundant seeds
- Prone frequent tire outbreak.
- Low nutritive value.