Características de la (Tithonia diversifolia (Hemsl.) A. Gray como forraje en la Estación Experimental Latitud 0.

Abstract

The buttercup or Tithonia diversifolia is a shrubby plant that has presented a high yield of biomass and rapid recovery after cuts, it has high values of proteins necessary in the feeding of animals, according to the aforementioned, this present study was carried out. research at the Latitude 0 Experimental Station at the Laica Eloy Alfaro University of Manabí Pedernales extension, with the objective of carrying out the characterization and measuring the adaptation of the (Tithonia diversifolia (Hemsl.) A. Gray, the variables of number of buds, number of leaves and diameter, length and weight in kg of the twigs were evaluated, the results were subjected to analysis of variance (ADEVA) using a Completely Randomized Block Design and Tukey test (P≤0.05). The results show that the (Tithonia diversifolia (Hemsl.) A. Gray: in its bromatological composition carried out on leaf, stem and root, it was obtained that the humidity is higher in the stem with 75.95%, the protein content is higher in the leaves 3.07% on a wet basis and 12% on a dry basis and ethereal extract is higher in leaves 2.62% on a wet basis and 10.24%, followed by the ash content in roots 4.03% on a wet basis and 16.14% on a dry basis, the fiber content is 6.79% on a wet basis and 27.22% on a dry basis and the nitrogen-free extracts have 13.9% in wet basis and 54.4% on dry basis The distance of 0.25 x 0.25 presented a higher mean (8.54 cm), there are no statistically significant differences between the means of the weight of the Braces for the different levels of spacing and the means of the number of buds at 20 days for the different levels of spacing present a higher average at a spacing of 75x75 as does the variable number of leaves. The analysis of establishment costs. of one hectare of (Tithonia diversifolia (Hemsl.) A. Gray requires an investment of $3005.00 USD, and the costs for treatments are $721.25 USD.