* Department of Animal Husbandry, Mekele, Ethiopia.
** Department of Animal Nutrition.
*** Department of Agronomy.
Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263 145, India
Online published on 29 October, 2012.
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.
