Claim · model-written summary
Soil plus foliar zinc in maize-legume intercrops enhanced yield, quality, and profitability.
- Treatment
- ZnSO4 @ 20 kg as soil application + 0.5% ZnSO4 sprayed twice at 30 and 50 DASe0
- Outcome
- yield, better quality and higher profitabilitye0
- Direction
- enhancede0
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Verbatim
e0“Application of ZnSO4 @ 20 kg as soil application + 0.5% ZnSO4 sprayed twice at 30 and 50 DAS to maize + soybean/cowpea intercropping (2:1) system resulted in enhanced yield, better quality and higher profitability”
Title
Legume integration and zinc fortification enhanced yield and quality of maize-based forage systems
Nazim Hamid Mir; Bashir A. Alie; Suheel Ahmad; et al. Range Management and Agroforestry 2025. doi:10.59515/rma.2025.v46.i1.16
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Observation Sole maize produced the highest green fodder yield at 45.57 t ha-1.
- Observation Sole maize produced the highest dry fodder yield at 13.82 t ha-1.
- Intervention effect Soil and foliar zinc increased green fodder yield 10% versus control.
- Intervention effect Soil and foliar zinc increased dry fodder yield 33% versus control.
- Intervention effect Maize-cowpea intercropping significantly increased dry matter intake to 2.14% over sole maize.
- Intervention effect Maize-soybean intercropping significantly increased dry matter intake to 2.13% over sole maize.
- Intervention effect Maize-cowpea intercropping increased digestible dry matter to 62.62%.
- Intervention effect Maize-soybean intercropping increased digestible dry matter to 61.99%.
- Intervention effect Maize-cowpea intercropping increased total digestible nutrients to 64.22%.
- Intervention effect Maize-soybean intercropping increased total digestible nutrients to 63.77%.
- Intervention effect Legume intercropping improved relative feed value over sole maize.
- Intervention effect Zn1 increased relative feed value from 106.30% under Zn0 to 111.61%.
- Intervention effect Zn2 increased relative feed value from 106.30% under Zn0 to 116.38%.