Data sheet
View crop Data sheet EcoPortPennisetum glaucum
| Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Life form | grass | Physiology | |
| Habit | erect | Category | cereals & pseudocereals |
| Life span | annual | Plant attributes | grown on large scale |
| Ecology | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optimal | Absolute | Optimal | Absolute | ||||
| Min | Max | Min | Max | Soil depth | deep (>>150 cm) | medium (50-150 cm) | |
| Temperat. requir. | 25 | 35 | 12 | 40 | Soil texture | medium, light | medium, light |
| Rainfall (annual) | 400 | 900 | 200 | 1700 | Soil fertility | moderate | low |
| Latitude | 18 | 14 | 28 | 32 | Soil Al. tox | ||
| Altitude | --- | --- | - | 1800 | Soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) | medium (4-10 dS/m) |
| Soil PH | 5 | 6.5 | 4.5 | 8.3 | Soil drainage | well (dry spells) | well (dry spells), excessive (dry/moderately dry) |
| Light intensity | very bright | very bright | very bright | clear skies | |||
| Climate zone | tropical wet & dry (Aw), tropical wet (Ar), desert or arid (Bw), steppe or semiarid (Bs), subtropical humid (Cf), subtropical dry summer (Cs), subtropical dry winter (Cw) | Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Killing temp. during rest | 2 | Killing temp. early growth | 0 |
| Abiotic toler. | Abiotic suscept. | ||
| Introduction risks. |
| Cultivation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Min | Max | |||
| Product. system | home garden, small scale (manual), intermediate (animal drawn), large scale/commercial | Crop cycle | 60 | 120 |
| Cropping system | Subsystem | Companion species | Level of mechanization | Labour intensity |
| ley cropping | ||||
| Uses | ||
|---|---|---|
| Main use | Detailed use | Used part |
| animal food (feed) | vitamins | seeds |
| animal food (feed) | minerals | leaves |
| food & beverage | starch | seeds |
| food & beverage | vitamins | seeds |
| food & beverage | minerals | seeds |
| fuels | non-wood fuel | leaves |
| animal food (feed) | minerals | leaves |