2. WHAT IS SILAGE ?
“Silage is the green succulent roughage preserved mostly in its original
condition, with without loss in respect of various nutritive constituents
of fodder”.
3. Crops for Patanjali Silages
1. Maize: Maize is the first priority crop
having more than 70% share & used for
making silage having proper cob, grain
setting & 35% Dry Matter to get high
quality silage.
Requisite of crop for ensiling:
a) Plant moisture percent should not be less
than 30%.
b) Grain setting would be complete & 2/3 of
grain turns yellow.
c) 4-6 lower leaves of maize should be dried
naturally at time of harvesting. This is
shown in photos below.
Maize Crop ready harvesting for Silage Making
4. Crops for Patanjali Silages
2. Meethi Jowar (Sweet Sorghum): Meethi
Jowar is the Second priority crop having 30%
share in production & used for making silage
having proper cob, grain setting & 35% Dry
Matter to get high quality silage.
Requisite of crop for ensiling:
a) Plant moisture percent should not be less
than 35%.
b) Grain setting would be complete & of grain
turns hard but not matured.
c) 6-8 lower leaves of maize should be dried
naturally at time of harvesting. Which is
shown in photos below.
Jowar Crop ready harvesting for Silage Making
6. Why Silage ?
1. Silage is complete natural feed:
Crop grown with standard
agronomic practices, having 4-6 dried leaves, 15-20% grain,
thick plant with high quantity of digestible pith, high leaf
stem ratio and well developed root system gives crops rich
with nutrients.
2. Gives sustainable nutritious feed Solution:
Silage is available
throughout the year without variation in reasonable price &
its constituents. No need to go for re-feed formulation.
7. Why Silage ?
3. Eliminate storage problems:
Compressed (>700kg/CUM)
UV treated airtight packing facilitate storage even in open
area.
4. Cost effective diet as compared to current diets:
Use of
silage reduce the cost of production by replacing good
quantity of concentrate and poor digestible fiber and
improve feed & fodder digestibility.
If compared with green fodder it gives 3 times higher DM in
less volume and storage capacity is incomparable.
10. 5. Highly digestible:
Following Properties of Patanjali Silages improves digestibility:
Thick stem leads to low lignified area.
Quantity of pith is more which is highly digestible.
High leaf & stem ratio.
Moist in nature, which have soaking effect.
Leaves dried due to poor sunshine not due to maturity.
Palatability increase saliva formation.
Improve protein & digestible as like curd.
Silage is Pre-digestible due to microbial fermentation same as Rumen
fermentation due to energy is saved & same energy utilized for more milk
production.
Superior quality crop with grain used for silage making.
11. Conti……
• Regular supply throughout the
year with minimum inventory &
less storages space.
• It leads to proper digestion due
to same pH & micro flora of
rumen & silage.
• As we know ruminant animal
digestion is based of microbes &
rumen pH is maintained by
microflora & consistent feeding.
• Which can be maintained by
giving silage as base feeding
material through out the year.
Pic: Internal Rumen of Cattle
12. 6. Highly Palatable:
Following Properties of Patanjali Silages
improve palatability-
Crop is rich in major nutrients as compare to others feed &
fodder.
Sweet & sour in taste.
Moist in nature.
Properly mixed with all dry, grain & green of good quality
crop.
Highly conditioned grain & stem which is easy in chewing.
13. 7. Work as rumen buffer:
Stablize rumen pH and act as rumen
buffer due to presence of silage in daily diet.
8. Sweet & sour flavour , attract female milch animals:
9. Control diet moisture variation:
Patanjali Silage stabilize
moisture content in diet which helps in correct calculation
of water requirement and No bloating. As it occurs with
different crop & their moisture variation due time, age &
season.
14. 10. Farmer Friendly Operation:
Use of silage as full daily diet
helps the farmer in following way:
Easy to serve
Control wastage by knowing correct dry matter content.
Control feeding.
Proper mixing even better than TMR (Total Mix Ration).
Farmer need not to face bad weather for arranging fodder.
Avoid chances of poisonous insect & reptile bite, which is one
of the very important issue.
Keep dairy farmer dust free.
Silage available at farmer door step.etc
15. 11. Rich in major & micro nutrient as compared to traditional green fodder
of same crop. Which avoid repeat breeding (repeater), improves
fertility and retention of placenta problems. Source of nutrients is soil
no chemical additives.
12. Patanjali Silage is having 10-20 % grain (as harvested with full grain
cob/earhead).
13. Patanjali silage is highly conditioned by using machinery having very
effective roller & crusher system.
14. Silage is produced fully automatically from crop harvesting to packing
without hand & soil touch. Its totally clean & hygienic production
system.
15. Silage is having more therapeutic value compared to green fodder as
like curd. Bacteria present in silage & curd are same.
16. Carbon sequestration: Due to high biomass production in short
duration leads to carbon di-oxide fixation.
16. Neat & Clean
Production System
A. Start of Harvesting &
chaffing in single operation
batch wise sown at farmer
field in presence of our QC
person with universal
harvesters.
B. Crop should not come in
contact of soil after
harvesting as per our QC
protocol.
C. In case of manual we will
use tarpaulin sheet at soil.
17. D. harvested & chaffed fodder
directly from standing crop
in one operation
automatically loaded in
side/back moving tippers
(Tipping trailer or truck
tipper).
E. Immediately after
harvesting sifted to
processing unit.
F. Tyre washing of tractor,
trailer & tipper before
hopper ramp
G. Unloaded directly on
hopper and adjoining
hopper ramp and sifted
manually , if required.
18. H. Chaffed material taken in to
Bailer with conveyer.
I. Bailing would be done in
round & rectangular bailer.
J. Sifting Finished good to
ware house.
K. Introduced in to market 45
days after processing.
21. 2. Hay
Hay is conserved as dry by harvesting & drying 50%
flowering stages in field or on ramp with minimum
loss of nutrient & comparable in digestibility. Its now
made in compact bails & made transport easier.
22. Crops Suitable for Hay Making
1. Oats
2. Lucerne (Rijka)
3. Bajra (Pearl Millet)
4. Rye Grass
