Influence of Irrigated Soil on Nutrients Composition of Camel Browse Vegetations

| Investigation was themed to monitor the influence of irrigated soil on major nutrients in different camel browse vegetations. Results indicated Haloxylon salicornicum significantly rich and Prosopis cineraria comparatively poor in moisture content however dry matter appeared vice versa. Total organic and inorganic matter in Acacia nilotica, Ziziphus nummularia, Acacia jacquemontii, Prosopis juliflora, Prosopis cineraria, Alhagi maurorum, Capparis deciduas, and Zea mays found significantly different (P˂0.05) from Trifolium alexandrinum, Salvadora oleiodes, Suaeda fruticosa, Haloxylon salicornicum and Tamarix passerinoides. Suaeda fruticosa had significantly maximum crude protein concentration. Zea mays had significantly high, Suaeda fruticosa comparatively low extract level. Nitrogen free extract among Acacia nilotica, Prosopis juliflora and Prosopis cineraria existed considerably high. Crude fiber was found significantly higher in Zea mays. Prosopis juliflora and Acacia nilotica acquired prominent concentration of total carbohydrate. Inorganic matter in Haloxylon salicornicum, Tamarix passerinoides, Salvadora oleiodes, Suaeda fruticosa and Trifolium alexandrinum didn’t significantly vary compared to each other, while with other vegetations it significantly varied. Zea mays, Acacia nilotica, Capparis deciduas, Ziziphus nummularia, Prosopis cineraria, Alhagi maurorum, Acacia jacquemontii and Prosopis juliflora appeared significantly different compared to Haloxylon salicornicum, Tamarix passerinoides, Salvadora oleiodes, Suaeda fruticosa and Trifolium alexandrinum against ash content. Study concludes that Trifolium alexandrinum noted to be high moistured vegetation, Acacia jacquemontii rich in organic matter and Salvadora oleiodes in total inorganic matter at irrigated areas. Further, Capparis deciduas, and Suaeda fruticosa both pertained considerable crude protein contents. Zea mays and Salvadora oleiodes possessed high ether extract.


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Advances in Animal and Veterinary Sciences 2020 | Volume 8 | Issue 9 | Page 952 January the coldest during winter (Manzoor et al., 2013).
Favorable climate and ample sources of irrigation water favor several kinds of crops, vegetables and fruits such as wheat, cotton, sugarcane, maize, tomato, chili, mango etc (Iqbal and Khan, 2001). Additionally, various species of cow, sheep, goat and camels are also found which are normally used for the production of milk, meat, wool and hair. Regarding camels it has been reported that camel herders mostly rear the camels under open environment. They allow the camels for grazing during morning and evening. Camels generally prefer to browse the natural vegetations which are rarely found in the district, as most of lands are commercially used for cash crops where browsing of camels is not allowed and that results camels particularly suffer from shortage of high quality feed among all livestock animals (Sarwar et al., 2009).
It is also well documented that nutrients composition of dietary forages have prominent influence on the health status and production of camels and in this regards various studies have been conducted in the different parts of the world. As Towhidi (2007)   Contents of beaker were filtered through buchner funnel and rinsed with 50ml boiling water. Residues were transferred back into the beaker and boiled with NaOH having normality 0.3N (200ml) for 30min. Contents were filtered as above and washed with 25ml of boiling H 2 SO 4 (0.2N) and with 50ml H 2 O.The residues were dried at 65 o C for 24hrs and weighed. Residues were transferred into a pre-weighed crucible and ashed for 4hrs. Crucible containing sample was desiccated and weighed using analytical weight balance. The recorded observations were fixed in the following formula to compute the crude fiber percent. Nitrogen free extract was analyzed by difference method whereby sum of crude protein, ether extract, crude fiber and ash content was subtracted from Hundred. Percent of nitrogen free extract and crude fiber was summed together to calculate the total carbohydrate content. Inorganic matter was examined using Gravimetric method whereby sample (2g) in pre-weighed crucible was ignited in muffle furnace (600°C) for 6hrs, desiccated for one hour and then weighed. The ash percent was computed using formula.

stAtisticAl AnAlysis
Data from experimental procedures was gathered and analyzed using a statistical software namely Statistix (SXW), Version 8.1 (Copyright 2005, Analytical Software, USA). Statistical test i.e. completely randomized analysis of variance (ANOVA) under linear models was applied in order to observe any significant difference among the means. In case of significant difference occurred among means, the data were further analyzed by applying least significant difference (LSD) test (Gomez and Gomez, 1984).

Moisture And dry MAtter content
Results regarding the influence of irrigated soil on the moisture content, dry matter, organic matter and inorganic/mineral matter contents are presented in Table  1  Ziziphus nummularia found relatively in accordance with that of reported in different studies (Mohsen et al., 2011;Ullah et al., 2013;Chandra and Mali, 2014;El-Amier and Abdullah, 2015;Heuzé et al., 2016Heuzé et al., , 2016Rasool et al., 2017;Kathirvel and Kumudha, 2011). Nevertheless, slight variation occurred among them. This minor difference may be concerned with the environmental changes or variety distinction. However, the level of organic matter in Acacia nilotica and Salvadora oleiodes in current study totally disagreed with that of stated by different authers (Murray et al., 2000;Towhidi and Zhandi, 2007;Ashraf et al., 2013;Chandra and Mali, 2014;Bwai et al., 2015;Samreen et al., 2016). Present results of inorganic/ mineral matter in Salvadora oleiodes and Acacia nilotica did not appear in accordance with that of reported in different studies (Murray et   . The level of crude protein contents in Ziziphus nummularia, Acacia nilotica and Prosopis cineraria in present findings existed in agreement with that of reported results of different authors Chandra and Mali, 2014). Further, the level of crude protein content in Prosopis juliflora, Prosopis cineraria and Acacia jacquemontii are very much different compared to that of reported in

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Authors are thankful to the all staff members of the Department of Animal Nutrition, Sindh Agriculture University Tando jam for providing the research facility and conducive environment for current research project.

AuthorS contrIbutIon
Asad Ali Khaskheli: Performed research experiments, wrote abstract, methodology, results and discussion. Muhammad Ibrahim Khaskheli and Asad Ali Khaskheli: Conceived the research idea, designed experiments and provided technical inputs at every step of study. Allah Jurio Khaskheli: Overall management of the article and data entry in SPSS and analysis. Arshad Ali Khaskheli: Data collection and write-up of conclusion and references.