Are research and experiments on browse plants necessary in the Guinean zone?
Natural grazing land in the forest and fringe forest zones plays, with few exceptions, only a supporting role while livestock production is being started, and it must be borne in mind that investment should aim not to maintain it but rather to replace it. Flourishing savanna does not necessarily mean good grazing (derived savanna), nor does pseudo-prairie (edaphic savanna), merely because the animals can be maintained there throughout the year. Livestock development is therefore linked with the intensification of forage production. As regards cattle raising, in a pure grassland system, which is the simplest kind, there is no grassland legume which can really give satisfactory results. On the other hand grasses such as Brachiaria ruziziensis, and more especially some clones and hybrids of Panicum maximum, are especially adapted to this kind of utilization. All the same, in-depth tests remain to establish certain parameters, for example the carrying capacity and durability of the crop wi
