MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF FORAGE PLANTS

The main fodder plants are: amaranth (pigweed), peas (vetch), sweet clover, etc. Of the wild plants, some legumes (alfalfa, Ukrainian lotus), cereals (annual bluegrass, green foxtail), buckwheat (bird's knotweed, sorrel-leaved knotweed), nettles (stinging nettle), goosefoot (Tatar orach, white goosefoot, etc.) are of fodder value. Some woody plants are used in the republic to feed farm animals. Deciduous trees (oak, linden, etc.) and shrubs (willow, hazel, etc.) are used to prepare wood (twig) fodder. Coniferous flour is produced from the woody greenery of spruce and pine.