Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping maize and cassava in alternate rows (1C:1M) gave a land equivalent ratio (LER) advantage of 71%.
- Taxon
- cassava
Manihot esculentae5 - Treatment
- intercropping maize and cassavae5
- Outcome
- LERe5
- Direction
- higherinferrede5
- Value
- 71%e5
- Qualifier
- alternate rows (1C:1M)e5
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Verbatim
e5“Results of intercropping maize and cassava showed that alternate rows (1C:1M) had LER advantage of 71%”
Title
Achievements of Cassava Agronomy Research in Southern Ethiopia in the Last two Decades
Daniel Markos; Legesse Hidoto; Fiseha Negash Agriculture and Food Sciences Research 2016. doi:10.20448/journal.512/2016.3.1/512.1.12.18
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- Recommendation Plant spacing of 100 cm x 80, 120 cm x 80 and 80 cm x 80 was recommended for the Awassa, Amaro kele and Amaro Jijola areas, respectively.
- Association Root moisture content of cassava was higher in the varieties Qule, Kele and local at the 12th and 15th months after planting.
- Association Root moisture content of cassava decreased markedly and linearly after the 12th and 15th months after planting.
- Association Viscosity and root yield of cassava increased significantly starting at the 12th month after planting.
- Intervention effect Cassava intercropped with haricot bean gave an LER of 1.82 compared to sole beans in the Amaro area.
- Intervention effect Cassava intercropped with cow pea gave an LER of 1.49 compared to sole beans in the Amaro area.
- Intervention effect Cassava intercropped with soy bean gave an LER of 1.48 compared to sole beans in the Amaro area.
- Intervention effect Cassava intercropped with mung bean gave an LER of 1.62 compared to sole beans in the Amaro area.
- Intervention effect Slant and vertical plantings were more suitable than horizontal planting in Awassa sandy soils.
- Recommendation Planting material for cassava should be taken from the middle and top part of the main stem rather than from its branches.
- Intervention effect Furrow and ridge planting gave comparable yields of 48 t/ha and 43 t/ha compared with flat planting at 38 t/ha.
- Recommendation Rainfed cassava planting from mid April to early May gave optimum marketable and total tuber yield.