Claim · model-written summary
Total intercrop yield generally exceeded monoculture yield at both sites and in both years, with LER > 1.
- Taxon
- Maize, Cowpea and Okra
Vigna unguiculata
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Abelmoschus esculentust0 - Treatment
- intercropping trialse0
- Outcome
- yieldse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- LER > 1e0
- Qualifier
- both sites and yearse0
- Comparator
- mono-culturee0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSetting
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Verbatim
e0“intercropping trials resulted generally in higher yields compared to mono-culture (LER > 1) in both sites and years”
t0“Maize, Cowpea and Okra”
Title
Patient Farsia Djidjonri; Nukenine Elias Nchiwan; Hartmut Koehler AgriEngineering 2021. doi:10.3390/agriengineering3020025
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Observation Insect pests reduced Dang maize yield by 37% in 2016.
- Observation Insect pests reduced Dang maize yield by 24% in 2017.
- Observation Maize yield loss to pests was below 8% in Gouna in both years.
- Observation Insect pests reduced Dang cowpea seed yield by 47% in 2016.
- Observation Insect pests reduced Dang cowpea seed yield by 50% in 2017.
- Observation Insect pests reduced Gouna cowpea seed yield by 55% in 2016.
- Observation Insect pests reduced Gouna cowpea seed yield by 63% in 2017.
- Observation Insect pests reduced Dang okra fruit yield by 25% in 2016.
- Observation Insect pests reduced Dang okra fruit yield by 44% in 2017.
- Observation Insect pests reduced Gouna okra fruit yield by 23% in 2016.
- Observation Insect pests reduced Gouna okra fruit yield by 28% in 2017.
- Intervention effect Per-crop yield was lower under intercropping than monoculture because of resource competition.
- Recommendation The authors recommend maize-cowpea intercropping to reduce pest infestation.