DOI 10.36461/NP.2024.69.1.020
UDC 633.2+712.423

THE POTENTIAL OF USING FESTULOLIUM IN THE ORGANIZATION OF OF FODDER AND DECORATIVE AGROPHYTOCENOSIS IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE FOREST-STEPPE OF THE MIDDLE VOLGA REGION
E.A. Kalinichev, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, A.A. Galiullin, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, Associate Professor
Penza State Agrarian University, Penza, Russia, tel. 8-996-247-86-19, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Perennial grasses are a solid foundation for the organization of a high-quality forage base, while the range of their use can be much wider: from landscaping to design of recreational areas. Cereal crops are flexible to the conditions of cultivation, but the limiting factor for them is still the saturation of the soil with moisture. In modern conditions of increasing aridity of the climate, crops traditionally cultivated for forage and decorative purposes, including representatives of the bluegrass family, are characterized by a decrease in productivity and decorativeness. The solution to this problem may be the introduction of a promising long-term festulolium crop. In order to integrate festulolium into agricultural production, experiments were conducted to study its productivity and decorative advantages in the Middle Volga region. During the research period of 2020-2023, festulolium was characterized by indicators of green and dry mass at the level of 33.6-36.5 t/ha and 5.3-5.9 t/ha, respectively. The seed yield of the studied varieties ranged from 601.2-703.3 kg/ha, and the weight of 1000 seeds was 2.98–3.17 g.
The study of the decorative advantages of festulolium according to approved methods allowed us to conclude that for lawns consisting of festulolium both in pure sowing and as part of grass mixtures, a close-diffuse composition of herbage is characteristic, an assessment of the density of shoots is 6, a projective coating from 82 to 97%, an assessment of the overall decorative effect is 5 points, and the overall maximum quality assessment – 30 points, which characterizes them as excellent.
Keywords: festulolium, introduction, productivity, decorative effect, agrophytocenosis, green conveyor, grass mixture.

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