PRODUCTION OF BENEFICIAL LOCAL MICROORGANISM SOLUTION FROM HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY COMPOUND AND EFFECT OF ITS APPLICATION RATE AND ENSILING PERIOD ON QUALITY OF BARLEY (HORDEUM VULGARE) STRAW SIL

Abstract:

The experiment was conducted at Haramaya University compound, to evaluate three beneficial local microorganism (BLM) harvesting protocols and the effect of application rate and ensiling period of barley straw (BS) with beneficial local microorganism solution on its silage quality. The three procedures Niva, Rodrigueze and Davenport were used for production of beneficial local microorganism solution with three replication in a completely randomized design for each treatment (procedures) for experiment one. The quality of the beneficial indigenous microorganism solution was evaluated by assessing the pH and microbial population per unit solution. All the procedures were effective.