Thailand promoted Leucaena trees for fodder and reforestation, but scientists found that the fast-growing species is suppressing the natural regeneration of native forests

Explore how Thailand's use of Leucaena trees for reforestation and fodder has led to unexpected negative impacts on native ...

Thailand in the 1950s planted millions of leucaena trees for fodder and reforestation, but scientists now say they have spread into natural forests, replacing native vegetat…

Tree planting has always been viewed as one of the most effective means of bringing about restoration of degraded landscapes, ...
Indiatimes

Animal husbandry dept promotes fodder trees among dairy farmers

MADURAI: The animal husbandry department has come out with a proposal to promote fodder trees along with the usual fodder crops among dairy farmers through subsidies. They have planned to distribute ...
Global Times

Botswana entrepreneur turns to indigenous trees for livestock fodder

Tlotlo Phuduhudu, founder of Healthy Delights company, shows some of the livestock feeds produced using indigenous trees, plant by-products, and crop residue in Molepolole, Botswana, on Sept. 20, 2022 ...
New Vision

Tap into Indigenous fodder trees, shrubs for intensive goat production

Goats play an important role in the food and nutritional (source of protein) security of the rural poor especially in the rain-fed area where crop production is uncertain, and rearing large ruminants ...
AllAfrica.com

Mali: Women Turn to Tree Fodder to Fatten Their Sheep

- With the support of research, women in a rural community in Mali now know how to use fodder trees as sheep feed. When given a diet in which tree fodder replaced groundnut haulm (stalks), sheep were ...
The New Indian Express

Grow 10 types of trees to improve forest fodder, end crop raid

COIMBATORE: A group of experts from The Forest College and Research Institute at Mettupalayam, attached to TNAU, has recommended to the Coimbatore forest division officials to plant saplings of 10 ...
Dawn

Moringa as green fodder

THE prolonged dry spell, usually from December through May, directly affects the grasslands and farming areas which create scarcity of green fodder for livestock. Use of fodder trees and shrub forages ...