Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping with cowpea significantly increased yield attributes and yield of pigeonpea.
- Taxon
- pigeonpea
Cajanus cajane0 - Treatment
- Intercrop cowpeae0
- Outcome
- yield attributes and yielde0
- Direction
- increasee0
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Verbatim
e0“Intercrop cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] effectively suppressed weed growth, arrested nutrient depletion and resulted in significant increase in yield attributes and yield of pigeonpea [Cajunus cajan (L.) Millsp.] in both the years”
Title
Chemical weed control in pigeonpea (Cajunus cajan) intercropped with short-duration grain legumes
B. M. PATIL; JITENDRA PANDEY Indian Journal of Agronomy 2001. doi:10.59797/ija.v41i4.3703
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Intercropping with cowpea suppressed weed growth in pigeonpea.
- Intervention effect Intercropping with cowpea arrested nutrient depletion in pigeonpea.
- Intervention effect Greengram had a slightly lower effect than cowpea in the wet year and a minor effect in the drought year.
- Intervention effect Hand-weeding significantly decreased weed population, weed dry weight and nutrient depletion in pigeonpea.
- Intervention effect The tank mix of imazethapyr and pendimethalin significantly decreased weed population, weed dry weight and nutrient depletion in pigeonpea.
- Intervention effect Hand-weeding conspicuously increased yield attributes and yield of pigeonpea.
- Intervention effect The tank mix of imazethapyr and pendimethalin conspicuously increased yield attributes and yield of pigeonpea.
- Intervention effect Intercropping systems gave higher return than sole cropping in both years.
- Intervention effect Hand-weeding resulted in higher net return, net return and benefit:cost ratio in pigeonpea.
- Intervention effect The tank mix of imazethapyr and pendimethalin resulted in higher net return, net return and benefit:cost ratio in pigeonpea.