TY - JOUR AU - Ledea Rodríguez, José Leonardo AU - Rosell Alonso, Guiselle AU - Benítez Jiménez, Diocles Guillermo AU - Crucito Arias, Ramón AU - Ray Ramírez, Jorge Valentín AU - Nuviola Pérez, Yordanis AU - Reyes Pérez, Juan José PY - 2018/05/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Forage yield and its components according to the cutting frequency of Moringa oleifera, cultivar Criolla JF - Agronomía Mesoamericana JA - Agron. Mesoam. VL - 29 IS - 2 SE - Technical Notes DO - 10.15517/ma.v29i2.30436 UR - https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/agromeso/article/view/30436 SP - 425-431 AB - <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>In some countries of Central America, </span><span>Moringa </span><span>spp is considered as the tree of life because of its nutritional properties and its plasticity. In some of them, research is held to take advantage of </span><span>Moringa </span><span>spp foraging and nutritional properties regarding plant age, to be used for animal feed. This study aims to evaluate the effect of cutoff frequency on forage yield of </span><span>Moringa oleifera</span><span>, cultivar Criolla. The study was carried out in January and December 2012, in </span>a Fluvisol soil of Cauto Valley under irrigation conditions and organic fertilization. A randomized block design with four replications was used and the variables considered were, plant height, number and thickness of shoots, number of leaves, leaf/stem ratio, total dry matter yield (DM), and leaf dry matter to explain the response of cutting at 45 and 60days. All the analyzed variables were significantly affected (p≤0.05) by cutoff frequency. The highest (p≤0,05) yield ofleaf dry matter , stems, and total were obtained when cutting at 60 days with 7.3, 11.8, and 18.4 t MS/ha respectively.It is concluded that cutting frequency modified the productive behavior of cultivars under study.</p></div></div></div> ER -