Fodder Production and Grassland Management

Non-Legumes

ANNUAL AND PERENNIAL NON-LEGUMES

Sl. No.	Common name	Tamil name	Scientific name
A. Annual (Summer)
1.	Sorghum	Cholam	Sorghum bicolor
2.	Sudan grass		Sorghum sundanense
3.	Maize	Makkacholam	Zea mays
4.	Cumbu / Bajra /Pearl millet	Cumbu	Pennisetum glacum
5.	Teosinte		Euchlaena mexicana
6.	Finger millet/ Ragi	Kelvaragu	Eleusine corocana
7.	Little millet or samai	Samai	Panicum miliare
8.	Proso millet		Panicum miliaceum
B. Annual (winter)
9.	Oats		Avena sativa
10.	Barley		Hordeum vulgare
11.	Rye		Sicale cereale
C. Perennial
12.	Hybrid Napier	Cumbu napier ottupull	Pennisetum purpureum x Pennisetum americanum
13.	Guinea grass	Guineapull	Panicum maximum
14.	Para grass	Neerpull	Brachiaria mutica
15.	Doop grass / Bermuda grass	Arugampull	Cynodon dactylon
16.	Anjan grass (Buffel grass)	Kollukkattai pull	Cenchrus ciliaris
17.	Black anjan / Bird wood grass	Karuppu Kolukkatti pull	Cenchrus setigerus
18.	Rhodes grass	Mayil Kondaipull	Chloris gayana
19.	Signal grass		Brachiaria decumbens
20.	Elephant grass / Napier grass	Yanaipullu	Pennisetum purpureum
21.	Marvel grass		Dichanthium annulataum
22.	Canary grass		Phalaris tuberosa L
23.	Blue Panic grass		Panicum antidotale
24.	Molasses grass		Melinis minutifolia
25.	Kikuyu grass		Pennisetum clandestinum
26.	Deenanath grass		Pennisetum pedicellatum
27.	Johnson grass		Sorghum halepense
28.	Seteria		Seteria anceps
29.	Sabi grass / Little para grass		Urochloa mosambicensis