Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping cassava with cowpea reduced cassava yield by 37%.
- Taxon
- cassava
Manihot esculentae2 - Material
- cassava (cultivar Kelo)e1
- Treatment
- cowpeae2
- Outcome
- cassava yielde2
- Direction
- reducese2
- Value
- 37e2
- Setting
- Mekiredi (Amaro research site)e0
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Verbatim
e0“Field experiment was conducted at Mekiredi (Amaro research site) in southern nation’s nationalities and peoples region of Ethiopia”
e1“using cassava (cultivar Kelo) and 4 legume varieties including haricot bean (omo95), mung bean (boroda-1), soybean (Awassa-95), and cow pea (Maze)”
e2“Intercropping cassava with haricot bean, cowpea, soybean and mung bean, reduces cassava yield by 27, 37, 52 and 50% respectively”
Title
Identification of suitable legumes in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)-Legumes intercropping
Legese Hidoto; Gobeze Loha African Journal of Agricultural Research 2013. doi:10.5897/ajar12.1976
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Intercropping cassava with haricot bean reduced cassava yield by 27%.
- Intervention effect Intercropping cassava with soybean reduced cassava yield by 52%.
- Intervention effect Intercropping cassava with mung bean reduced cassava yield by 50%.
- Intervention effect Intercropping cassava with haricot bean gave 82% greater land use efficiency than either crop grown alone.
- Intervention effect Intercropping cassava with cowpea gave 49% greater land use efficiency than either crop grown alone.
- Intervention effect Intercropping cassava with soybean gave 48% greater land use efficiency than either crop grown alone.
- Intervention effect Intercropping cassava with mung bean gave 62% greater land use efficiency than either crop grown alone.
- Observation The land equivalent ratio was greater than one when cassava was intercropped with legumes.
- Recommendation Farmers producing cassava should plant with grain legumes such as haricot bean and mung bean to obtain alternative crops that minimise risk and use land more efficiently.