Claim · model-written summary
About 98% of surveyed farmers in Transkei followed a maize, bean and pumpkin intercropping system.
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e7“The main farming system of the majority of the farmers (98%) was based on intercropping involving maize, beans and pumpkin combined in an haphazard fashion”
Title
T. TEMBAKAZI SILWANA; E. O. LUCAS The Journal of Agricultural Science 2002. doi:10.1017/s0021859601001861
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Association Intercropping adversely affected plant heights and circumferences of the component crops.
- Intervention effect Intercropping depressed the yield of each individual crop compared with its sole yield.
- Intervention effect In maize/beans intercrop, maize yield was depressed by 15% compared with sole maize.
- Intervention effect In maize/beans intercrop, bean yield was depressed by 13% compared with sole beans.
- Association Land Equivalent Ratio was highest for maize at 10000 plants/ha combined with beans at 150000 plants/ha with weeding (2.60).
- Association The best Land Equivalent Ratio in maize/pumpkin intercrop (1.50) was at 30000 plants/ha of maize with pumpkin at 2500 plants/ha, with weeding.
- Intervention effect Weeding enhanced intercrop yields in the maize/bean combination by 35%.
- Intervention effect Weeding enhanced intercrop yields in the maize/pumpkin combination by 30%.