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Lucerne (Medicago sativa) is the only herbage legume in East Africa that has been grown consistently on farm scale for many decades. Lucerne’s perenniality; tolerance of moisture stress; ability to draw moisture from deep in the profile; adaptation to climate; soil improving properties; ability to produce a highly nutritious fodder over long periods of the year as well as its persistence have rightly earned lucerne the title of “queen of the fodders” throughout the temperate and subtropical climates of the globe. Lucerne is world’s oldest cultivated fodder.
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Boonman, J.G. (1993). Lucerne. In: East Africa’s grasses and fodders: Their ecology and husbandry. Tasks for vegetation science 29, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8224-7_17
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