Claim · model-written summary
Cowpea intercropping yielded 89 830 millable canes per hectare, above cane alone.
- Taxon
- SUGARCANEt0
- Treatment
- cowpeae0
- Interactor
- cowpea
Vigna unguiculatae0other - Outcome
- NMCe0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 89 830e0
- Comparator
- cane alonee0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“sunnhemp, cowpea grown and soybean recorded higher NMC (92 080, 89 830 and 87 830/ha respectively) than cane alone (85 910/ha)”
t0“SUGARCANE”
Title
AGRONOMIC MANAGEMENT OF INTERCROPPING IN SUGARCANE AND ITS ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS
R. B. Khandagave 2010
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Intervention effect Planting systems did not significantly alter millable cane number or cane yield.
- Intervention effect Sunnhemp intercropping yielded 92 080 millable canes per hectare, above cane alone.
- Intervention effect Soybean intercropping yielded 87 830 millable canes per hectare, above cane alone.
- Intervention effect Maize intercropping reduced millable cane number to 68 880.
- Observation Cane yield under sunnhemp intercropping was 111.1 t/ha.
- Observation Cane yield under cowpea intercropping was 109.1 t/ha.
- Observation Cane yield under soybean intercropping was 106.9 t/ha.
- Intervention effect Cane yield under maize intercropping was 70.8 t/ha, below cane alone.
- Intervention effect Dual-row planting improved benefit-cost ratio from 2.17 to 2:76 relative to single-row planting.
- Observation Soybean intercropping produced 1.5 t/ha grain yield.
- Observation Soybean intercropping yielded the highest net return at Rs68, 336/ha.
- Observation Soybean intercropping achieved a benefit-cost ratio of 3.21.
- Observation Maize intercropping produced lower net income and benefit-cost ratio despite higher maize yield.
- Observation Potato intercropping produced lower net income and benefit-cost ratio despite higher potato yield.
- Observation Intercropping improved soil chemical properties after cane harvest.