HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Fodder primarily refers to crops harvested and used for stall feeding. Forage is defined as fresh or preserved vegetative matter used as animal feed. Forage crops include grasses, legumes, crucifers, and other crops grown for hay, pasture, fodder, and silage.

Detailed explanation-2: -Historically, the term forage has meant only plants eaten by the animals directly as pasture, crop residue, or immature cereal crops, but it is also used more loosely to include similar plants cut for fodder and carried to the animals, especially as hay or silage.

Detailed explanation-3: -Forage crops are usually grasses (Poaceae) or herbaceous legumes (Fabaceae). Some tree legumes such as mulga (Acacia aneura) and leadtree (Leucaena leucocephala) are also grown in desert and tropical grasslands (Muir et al., 2011).