Did you know that silage can be made in bags? Like the Mama Silage Bag (pictured) manufactured by Packaging Industries Limited in Kenya.
Silage bags have many benefits.
They are portable, reusable, can be easier to manage than a pit and don’t require the on-farm labour needed to dig pits.
Drums work too – and like bags, they are resistant to termites.
Silage is made by fermenting fresh fodder that is high in sugars.
Maize, sorghums and Napier/Bana grass, in that order, are the preferred silage crops in Zambia.
Fermentation of these crops happens under anaerobic conditions (i.e., when the air has been removed).
This is easily achieved with bags.
Bags also present a business opportunity, with dairy farmers able to sell silage in bags to cattle owners.
For more information on making silage in bags, check out fact sheet F01E at https://www.zambiadairy.com/fact-sheets.
Other fact sheets on making, managing and feeding silage are also available.
Contact us by emailing zdtpinfo@primeconsultants.net if you are interested in accessing silage bags for your dairy farm enterprise.