Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping sustained land equivalent ratio.
- Taxon
- pawpaw
Asimina trilobae1 - Treatment
- Intercroppinge1
- Outcome
- LERe0
- Direction
- sustainede0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“while it sustained LER”
e1“Intercropping significantly decreased pawpaw plant height”
Title
OO Olubode; IOO Aiyelaagbe; JG Bodunde; et al. Nigerian Journal of Horticultural Science 2009. doi:10.4314/njhs.v13i1.46564
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Intercropping reduced five pawpaw growth traits in the first year.
- Association Sunrise solo was more compatible with cucumber.
- Association Homestead selection was more compatible with okra.
- Association Sunrise solo had 58.89 fruits per plant versus 38.44 for Homestead.
- Intervention effect Okra depressed fruit yield more than cucumber for both pawpaw varieties.
- Observation For Sunrise solo, sole, okra and cucumber systems yielded 24.32, 20.27 and 22.55 ton/ha.
- Observation For Homestead, sole, okra and cucumber systems yielded 42.66, 24.54 and 39.16 ton/ha.
- Recommendation The authors recommended early vegetable intercropping to sustain land use and productivity.