Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping with seed cowpea reduced weed weight by 72.0 percent compared with solid planting.
- Taxon
- cowpea
Vigna unguiculatae6 - Treatment
- cowpea was seedse6
- Interactor
- weede6weed
- Outcome
- weed weighte6
- Direction
- reductione6
- Value
- 72.0%e6
- Comparator
- solid plantinge6
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Intercropping Maize with Cowpea”
e6“The reduction in weed weight was 72.8% when intercropped cowpea was forage and 72.0% when cowpea was seeds compared with solid planting”
Title
M Abou-Keriasha; R Gadallah; N El-Wakil; et al. Egyptian Journal of Agronomy 2011. doi:10.21608/agro.2011.146
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Maize preceded by faba bean was superior in most studied characters, and lowest after wheat.
- Intervention effect Weed density in maize sequenced by legume crops was lower than in maize sequenced by wheat.
- Observation Yield and yield components of maize decreased under intercropping, with the lowest values when cowpea was preceded by wheat.
- Observation Maize grain yield was reduced by 4.7 percent when intercropped with cowpea.
- Intervention effect Intercropping with forage cowpea reduced weed weight by 72.8 percent compared with solid planting.
- Intervention effect Forage yield of cowpea decreased more under intercropping, by 52.2 percent compared with solid planting.
- Intervention effect Seed yield of cowpea decreased more under intercropping, by 74.3 percent compared with solid planting.
- Observation Maize sequenced by berseem with intercropped cowpea cut after two months gave the highest land equivalent ratio, 1.46.
- Observation Maize sequenced by berseem with intercropped cowpea cut after two months gave the highest area time equivalent ratio, 1.19.
- Observation Maize sequenced by berseem with intercropped cowpea cut after two months gave the highest monetary advantage index, 1874.66.