Claim · model-written summary
Maize-cowpea intercropping significantly increased dry matter intake to 2.14% over sole maize.
- Treatment
- maize + cowpeae0
- Outcome
- dry matter intakee0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 2.14e0
- Comparator
- sole maizee0
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Verbatim
e0“Maize + legume intercropping significantly increased dry matter intake (2.14 and 2.13%), digestible dry matter (62.62 and 61.99%) and total digestible nutrients (64.22 and 63.77%) in maize + cowpea and maize + soybean intercropped systems, respectively, over sole maize”
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-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%.
- Intervention effect Soil plus foliar zinc in maize-legume intercrops enhanced yield, quality, and profitability.