Kingdom: Plantae

Phylum: Streptophyta

Class: Equisetopsida

Subclass: Magnoliidae

Order: Poales

Family: Poaceae

Genus: Cenchrus

Species: Cenchrus pedicellatus

Description: Deenanath Grass is a many-branched leafy annual grass up to 1 m tall. The stems are erect and branching, and the leaves are 15-25 cm long and 4-10 mm wide, flat and hairless. The flower-clusters are pink to purple, dense flowered, forming cylindrical panicle. The spikelets are 4 mm long, usually solitary.The native range of this species is Cape Verde, Tropical Africa, Madagascar, Indian Subcontinent to Myanmar. It is an annual and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Uses: Desho is used as a year round fodder. To maintain the sustainability of the intervention, the plot is permanently made inaccessible to free grazing livestock; instead a cut-and-carry system is encouraged.[22] Cut-and-carry means that desho is harvested and brought to livestock for stall-feeding.[23] Due to its rapid growth rate, desho provides regular harvests, even reaching monthly cuts during the rainy reason. Once a year, just before the dry season, sufficient grass is harvested and stored as hay to feed the livestock until the rains return