Claim · model-written summary
The 2:1 ratio had the highest net return, 55,597 Rs ha-1.
- Taxon
- sorghum and cowpea
Vigna unguiculata
Sorghume0 - Treatment
- 2:1 row ratio intercropping of sorghum and cowpeae0
- Outcome
- net returnse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 55,597 Rs ha-1e0
- Comparator
- all other treatmentse0
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Verbatim
e0“The Highest gross return (79,731 Rs ha-1), net returns (55,597 Rs ha-1) and B: C ratio (2.30) was obtained under 2:1 row ratio intercropping of sorghum and cowpea which is significantly higher than all other treatments.”
Title
Ramanand Chaudhary; Sanjeev Kumar Gupta; Anshuman Kohli; et al. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 2020. doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2020.911.224
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect The 2:1 sorghum–cowpea ratio produced significantly higher green fodder yield of 491.0 q ha-1.
- Intervention effect The 2:1 sorghum–cowpea ratio produced significantly higher dry fodder yield of 103.30 q ha-1.
- Observation Sole cowpea had higher crude protein, 18.16%.
- Observation Sole cowpea had higher ash content, 15.89%.
- Observation Sole cowpea had minimum crude fiber, 23.42%.
- Intervention effect The 2:1 sorghum–cowpea ratio gave significantly higher crude protein yield of 5.52 q ha-1.
- Intervention effect The 2:1 ratio had the highest gross return, 79,731 Rs ha-1.
- Intervention effect The 2:1 ratio had the highest benefit–cost ratio, 2.30.
- Recommendation The authors judged 2:1 sorghum–cowpea intercropping economically viable with quality green fodder and higher net returns.