Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural
AGRENER

Abstract

ANDRADE, João Batista de, FERRARI JUNIOR, Evaldo, BEISMAN, Darcy Antônio et al. Avaliação do capim-elefante (pennisetum purpureum schum.) visando o carvoejamento. In Proceedings of the 3. Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural, 2000, Campinas (SP, Brazil) [online]. 2003 [cited 05 May 2024]. Available from: <http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000022000000100029&lng=en&nrm=iso> .

It was conducted, in the Research Farms of the Instituto de Zootecnia, at Nova Odessa and Brotas, 2 experiments to evaluate dry matter yield of elephant grass, cv Guaçu, upon 4 rates of nitrogen (50, 100, 200 or 400 kg N/ha/year) and 3 cut frequencies (2, 3 or 4 cuts/year). The experiments were set in randomized block design, with 4 replications. The treatments were arranged in a 4 x 3 factorial. The dry matter yield increased as nitrogen rates increased and cut frequency decreased.