THE CULTIVATION OF CORN AND SWEET SORGHUM SILAGE IN PURE AND MIXED CROPS IN CONDITIONS FOOTHILLS OF THE REPUBLIC OF DAGESTAN
The research was conducted in the foothill subprovincion of Dagestan, on the territory of the farm of the SEC "New Life" of the Kazbekovsky district. It is established that in the conditions of the economy, due to the use of silage crops, it is possible to establish a system of uninterrupted supply of animals with green feed, that is, a green conveyor system. Since the beginning of the first decade of July, corn crops are used for green fodder. In the second and third decades of July and the first decade of August, the necessary amount of green mass can be provided by clean crops of sugar sorghum and mixed crops of corn with sugar sorghum and soy. It should be noted that in the early stages of mowing, sugar sorghum plants grow very well and give a second mowing of the green mass, and this is an additional source of green feed. In the conditions of farming, the most productive silage crop when sown in pure form is sugar sorghum. On average, over the two years of research, sugar sorghum crops provided 47.5 t/ha of green mass. In the case of poly-species sowing, the highest yield, the yield of feed units and the content of digestible protein were provided by the joint sowing of sugar sorghum with corn.