Guptar,
You might wanna consider Endophyte Enhanced Grass. All the grass areas on my homeplate, including the small grass strip for the piston trainers have been changed to EEG within the last 3 years. The same goes for some of my countries largest civilian airports. The benefits of EEG is as follows:
- Reduces the amount of birds on the airfield. The EEG is not bug and mice friendly, so the birds go somewhere else.
- Migratory birds do their pitstops somewhere else as the EEG grass is very "stiff" and uncomfortable for the birds to rest in.
- EEG grass is extremely resilient to long periods without rain and it does not need fertilization. Furthermore it tends to remain green in colour during long hot and dry periods (it looks alive even though it has gone into hybernation).
- Due to the above, EEG grows very slowly and therefore you don't need to mow it all the time.
- EEG is extremely though and you won't experience issues with worn grass in the touchdown zone or in other areas with heavy movement.
The downsides are that its a bit more expensive, and you can not keep livestock on it as they will get sick if they eat the grass.
Check it out, its the Flight Safety Officers preferred choice as it just makes life easier for everyone on the field (except the wildlife).
https://ag.umass.edu/turf/fact-sheet...hanced-grasses