James A. Duke. Handbook of Energy Crops. All forms of this grass are excellent pasture grasses, as it remains green and grows throughout alternate wet-dry seasons in the dry Tropics.
Forage has outstanding palatability for grazing and harvested forage.
Competitiveness of this grass has been used in weed control, in Florida and elsewhere where rotated with vegetable crops. In Hawaii it is used for slope conservation. No data available. Germplasm Reported from the African Center of Diversity, pangola, or cvs thereof, is reported to tolerate aluminum, drought, grazing, heavy soil, insects, low pH, poor soil, salt, sand, shade, slope, trampling, ultraviolet, weeds, and wind. Does not tolerate prolonged waterlogging, alkaline conditions, or copper deficiency.