Claim · model-written summary
Maize-cowpea intercropping produced higher total yield per unit area than monocropping.
- Treatment
- Intercropping maize with cowpeae0
- Interactor
- cowpea
Vigna unguiculatae0other - Outcome
- total yields per unit land areae0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- mono crop counterparte0
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Verbatim
e0“Intercropping maize with cowpea produced higher total yields per unit land area than the mono crop counterpart.”
Title
Patrick A. Ndakidemi; Felix D. Dakora Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 2007. doi:10.1071/ea05274
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Maize grain yield increased 20–37% in 2003 relative to zero P.
- Intervention effect Maize grain yield increased 48–55% in 2004 relative to zero P.
- Intervention effect Mixed culture significantly reduced cowpea pod-bearing peduncles, pods and seeds per pod relative to monoculture.
- Intervention effect Mixed culture significantly reduced grain yield per cowpea plant relative to monoculture.
- Association Phosphorus and cropping system interacted significantly for cowpea yield components, which were generally lower in intercrops.
- Intervention effect Yield components of monocrop cowpea increased markedly with 40 or 80 kg P/ha.
- Intervention effect Yield components of inter-row cowpea increased to some extent with 40 or 80 kg P/ha.