The wonders of Sesbania sesban(legume) in Agriculture

Good evening to everyone in the steem platform it's interesting to be with you all again. Today I shall be presenting on the goodness of intergrating Sesbania sesban a leguminous tree shrub into your Agriculture model or farm yard.

Sesbania is a soft-wooded tree and nitrogen fixer that grows rapidly and is use for fodder and green manure purposes. In my community many agroforestry farmers have used Sesbania to improve thier yields. The plant is simply intergated along side crops like potatoes and during the harvesting period the plants are uprooted together with the potatoes and it's forage added back to the soil as green manure. The plant has noddles on its roots that help convert atmospheric nitrogen into soil nitrates which are inturn available as nutrients in the soil through the help of a nitro bacter bacteria. Sesbans are relatively short-lived, and under go intensive browsing and cutting
so management will not last more than 3-5 years.

This shrub is advantageous to other tree shrubs in that it is known for its rappid growth and produces seeds as soon as it matures out. It can best be intercroped with many other crops like maize, beans, soy beans, yams. It is commonly grown through seeds and can be coppiced to encourage under growth. It is best in alley cropping systems where it can be planted in contour lines, to serve as a fodder bank, wind break fence, live fence and green manure or nitrogen fixer.

The uses or prodducts from Sesbania.

Food : the flowers of Sesbania are edible is some parts of the world which gives it a larger spectrum for its uses in the world.
Fooder : as fodder this plant is served in the form of green leaf mill to animals in smaller quantities to boast their diets Fodder. The leaves and tender branches of sesban are high in protein (20-25% crude protein) and have high digestibility when consumed by ruminants, such as cattle and goats. Anti-nutritional factors are equally suspected to be present in sesban fodder. Therefore feeding sesbania fodders to monogastric animals such as chickens, rabbits, and pigs is not recommended.
Fuel ; as fuel wood, Sesban’s wood is light in weight compared to the woods of Calliandra and Leucaena trees, but it is often harvested for firewood in our community

Other services gotten from sesban include the use in intercropping , as a soil improver, for shade and shelter , as medicine where the roots and leafs as used to treat scorpion stings, gum and resin can also be drawn from it.
Thank you all for stopping by to read I am looking forward to seeing you in my next post. Plant Sesbania sesban in your farm and thank me later.