Export of Tropical Seeds
Avenia Sativa
Strictly speaking not a tropically suited species but can grow well at altitude in the tropics and extremely useful in any ration as hay or sileage.
Brachiaria Decumbrens
Often used as a permanent pasture but can also be utilized as cut and carry. A low cost high productivity seed that does well in acidic soils.
Known as:
Signal grass (Australia); Surinam grass , Surinamgras (German); Australiano, braquiária, braquiária comum, braquiária de alho, capim braquiária, decumbens (Portuguese – Brazil); braquiaria, pasto alambre, zacate Surinam, pasto chontalpo, pasto de la palizada, pasto de las orillas, pasto peludo, pasto prodigio, zacate prodigio, pasto señal, señal, zacate señal, zacate signal (Spanish).
Brachiaria Humidicola
Often used as apermmanent pasture and for control of weeds and erosion control. Can also be used for hay.
Known as:
Urochloa Humdicola, koronivia grass, humidicola, creeping signal grass (Australia); false creeping paspalum (English); braquiaria dulce, kikuyu de la Amazonía, pasto humidícola, pasto humidícola dulce (Spanish); capim agulha, pontudinho, quicuio da Amazônia (Portuguese); ya humidicola (Thailand).
Chloris Gayana
A must have for producing high quality hay, as a short to medium term pasture and can be sown under maize. High yielding and tolerant of salty soils.
Known as:
Rhodes grass (Australia, United States, Africa); chloris, herbe de rhodes (French); rhodasgras (German); capim-de-rhodes (Portuguese); grama de rodas, pasto de rodas (Spanish); pasto rhodes (Peru); koro-korosan, banuko (Philippines); ya rot (Thailand); tucgiéân (Vietnam); zacate gordura; banuko; abu raseya; erigaru; ol’piripiri-andoi.
Sorghum (bicolor) Sorghum Sudanese
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) Sweet sorghum x Sudan grass cross. High in protein good for hay, Can be used for hay, sileage and as cut and carry.
Lablab Purpureus
An excellent legume and can be used for human or livestock consumption. Lablab is a dual-purpose legume. It is traditionally grown as a pulse crop for human consumption in south and southeast Asia and eastern Africa. Flowers and immature pods also used as a vegetable. It is also used as a fodder legume sown for grazing and conservation in broad-acre agricultural systems in tropical environments with a summer rainfall. Also used as green manure, cover crop and in cut-and-carry systems and as a concentrate feed. It can be incorporated into cereal cropping systems as a legume to address soil fertility decline and is used as an intercrop species with maize to provide better legume/stover feed quality. As a dual purpose (human food and animal feed) legume , it is sown as a monoculture or in intercrop systems.
Known as:
Hyacinth bean, lablab bean, field bean, pig-ears, rongai dolichos, lab-lab bean, poor man’s bean, Tonga bean (English); dolique lab-lab, dolique d’Egypte, frijol jacinto, quiquaqua, caroata chwata, poroto de Egipto, chicarros, frijol caballo, gallinita, frijol de adorno, carmelita, frijol caballero, pois nourrice (Spanish); faselbohne, helmbohne, schlangenbohne, batao, wal, sem, lubia (the Sudan); fiwi bean (Zambia); antaque, banner bean (Caribbean); wal (India); batao (Philippines); natoba, toba (Fiji); pois Antaque; pois de Senteur, tapirucusu.
Macroptilium Atropurpureum
A must have versatile legume with nitrogen benefits and mainly used for permanent and short-term pastures. While best suited to grazing, it can also be used for cut-and-carry or conserved as hay (usually with an associated grass), although the twining habit can make harvesting difficult. It is also used for soil conservation (re-vegetation/stabilisation of earthworks in cuttings and on embankments), and as a cover crop, fallow crop (including after lowland rice), or as a forage crop sown with upland rice. Its value as a protein bank for dry season feeding is reduced by its tendency to drop leaf under very dry conditions.
When used as a short-term ley legume in sorghum crops, the nitrogen benefit can persist for up to 3 crops of sorghum. However, large populations of the twining legume can regenerate from hard seed in the soil, creating difficulties in grain harvest.protein reduces with age)
Known as:
Aztec atro, siratro, purple-bean, purple bush-bean (English); purpurbohne (German); conchito (Spanish).
Leucaena Leucocephala
Highly valued as ruminant forage and grown in hedge rows for cattle production and very high nutritional value.
Known as:
Guage (Mexico); wild tamarind (Corozal, Belize); lead tree (Florida); lamtoro (Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea); ipil ipil (Philippines); jumby bean (Bahamas); false koa, koa haole (Hawaii); tangantangan, tangan tangan, talantayan (Guam, Marshall Islands); talntangan, ganitnityuwan tangantan (Yap); tuhngantuhngan, rohbohtin (Kosrae); telentund (Palau); lopa samoa (American Samoa); fua pepe (American Samoa and Samoa); lusina (Samoa); pepe (Niue and Samoa); nito (Cook Islands); siale mohemohe (Tonga); subabul (India); vaivai (Fiji); cassis (Vanuatu); te kaitetua (Kiribati); kay keo dâu (Vietnam).
Panicum Maximum
A very good cut and carry and highly palatable when cut young at 20-30 days less useful as a long term pasture as protein content reduces with age.
Known as:
Guinea grass, Tanganyika grass , buffalograss (English speaking countries); hhash el gînâ (Arab countries); pasto guinea, mijo de guinea (Argentina); capim guine, capim-colonião, capim de Angola, capim de feixe, erva da Guine’ (Brazil); ratatana, giniopilli (Ceylon); da shu, yang cao (China); talapi, tinikarati (Cook Islands); suur hirss (Estonia); capime guiné, fataque, herbe de guinée, panic élevé (French speaking countries); guineagras (German speaking countries), giiniigaas, gini ghaus gini hullu (India); rumput banggala, rumput gajah, suket londo (Indonesia); erba di guinea (Italian speaking countries); ginea kibi (Japan); rebha luh-buluhan, rumput benggala, rumput sarang sesak (Malaysia), gini ghans (Nepalese); zaina, pasto guinea (Peru); gramalote (Puerto Rico); gewone buffelsgras (South Africa); ya-kinni (Thailand); saafa (Tonga), güyana otu (Turkey); vao kini (Samoa); hierba de india (Venezuela); co kê to (Vietnam).
Sorghum(bicolor) Sorghum Sudanese
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) Sweet sorghum x Sudan grass cross. High in protein good for hay, Can be used for hay, sileage and as cut and carry.
Other available seeds:
Alfalfa (lucerne), Digitaria Milanjiana(common finger grass), Digitaria Eriantha (finger grass), Stylothanses Scabra (Secca Stylo), Desmanthes, Setaria Narok etc