Claim · model-written summary
Metolachlor raised pulse grain yield 4% in sorghum cowpea intercropping.
- Taxon
- cowpea
Vigna unguiculatae1 - Treatment
- metolachlore0
- Outcome
- pulses grain yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 4e0
- Qualifier
- sorghum cowpeae0
- Comparator
- no herbicide applicatione0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSetting
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“Ap plication of metolachlor increased the mean sorghum grain yield by 54, 48 and 47% and pulses grain yield by 4 , 38 and 27% in sorghum cowpea, sorgtium blackgram and sorghum greengram intercropping, respectively, com pared to no herbicide application.”
e1“cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.]”
Title
M.N. BUDHAR; N.TAMILSELVAN Indian Journal of Agronomy 2001. doi:10.59797/ija.v48i2.3049
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Atrazine in pure sorghum controlled weeds relative to no herbicide.
- Intervention effect Metolachlor in intercropped sorghum controlled weeds relative to no herbicide.
- Intervention effect Metolachlor raised mean sorghum grain yield 54% in sorghum cowpea intercropping.
- Intervention effect Metolachlor raised sorghum grain yield 48% in sorghum blackgram intercropping.
- Intervention effect Metolachlor raised sorghum grain yield 47% in sorghum greengram intercropping.
- Intervention effect Metolachlor raised pulse grain yield 38% in sorghum blackgram intercropping.
- Intervention effect Metolachlor raised pulse grain yield 27% in sorghum greengram intercropping.
- Observation Sorghum greengram with metolachlor had the highest net income, Rs 10,759.
- Observation Sorghum greengram with metolachlor had the highest benefit to cost ratio, 3.1 6.