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Intercropping reduced maize forage yield versus monoculture.
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e0“Intercropping (average of all treatments) reduced maize grain and forage yields compared to maize in monoculture”
Title
Effect of Planting Sequence and Time, and Nitrogen on Maize Legume Intercrop Yield
W. B. Bryan; S. A. Peprah Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 1988. doi:10.1111/j.1439-037x.1988.tb00638.x
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Intervention effect Intercropping reduced maize grain yield versus monoculture.
- Intervention effect Intercropping had no effect on total forage production.
- Observation Total forage production was greatest when maize was seeded with or before cowpea.
- Observation Cowpea produced no grain.
- Observation Cowpea forage production was almost double polebean production.
- Intervention effect Maize forage production was highest when maize preceded legumes.
- Intervention effect Legume forage production was highest when legumes preceded maize.
- Intervention effect Early planting increased maize production.
- Intervention effect Early planting decreased legume production.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen increased maize grain yield.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen increased maize forage yield.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen increased total forage yield.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen had no effect on legume forage production.
- Recommendation The authors concluded that maize-legume intercrops show promise for increasing forage in temperate areas.
- Recommendation The authors call for further research on planting, weeds, harvesting and management.