Origin:
Selections from materials obtained from botanical gardens and mixture of selected offsprings
Description:
Stalks: immediate, glabrous
Leaves: wide, slightly rough
Iinflorescence: highly contracted panicle
Spikelet: shortly penuncled, with one branch, 2 couple of chaff
Seed: 2–3 mm long, yellowish, smooth, bright
Economical traits:
- annual, one cut and thermophilous grass for growing either in pure stands or in mixtures with annual species. It is used for green or dry matter
- this species has very good feeding rate
- unassuming for soil conditions
- it is very good preceding crop
- the grain can be used for feeding of poultry and exotic birds
Practical advice to growers:
- for fodder production this crop have to be sown as soon as possible after the harvest of preceding crop
- for grain production it have to be sown in the second half of April (it needs 10 °C for emergence)
- seeding in 12,5 – 25 cm rows
- seeding rate 15–20 kg/ha
- overall time of vegetation is 80 –120 days
