Claim · model-written summary
A sorghum to cowpea ratio of 1:13 improves the productivity of the system.
- Treatment
- ratio of sorghum : cowpea plants of 1:13e1
- Outcome
- productivity of the systeme1
- Direction
- improvese1
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Verbatim
e0“effect of intrarow and interrow mixing of sorghum with two varieties of cowpea on host crop yield in a Striga hermonthica infested field”
e1“It may also be attributed to the effectiveness of the cropping method, with a ratio of sorghum : cowpea plants of 1:13, which improves the productivity of the system and at the same time suppresses the germination of Striga seeds”
Title
BS Aliyu; A. M. Emechebe African Journal of Agricultural Research 2006. doi:10.5897/ajar.9000210
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Sorghum grown alone had the highest number of Striga per sorghum plant.
- Intervention effect Sorghum grown alone had the lowest yield, 2370 kg/ha.
- Intervention effect Intra-row mixture of sorghum and densely planted cowpea IT96D-452-1 gave a higher sorghum yield of 3709 kg/ha.
- Intervention effect Intra-row mixture with densely planted cowpea IT96D-452-1 had the least number of Striga per net plot and per plant.
- Mechanism The cowpea trap crop may stimulate suicidal germination of Striga seeds, lowering Striga damage to sorghum.
- Intervention effect A sorghum to cowpea ratio of 1:13 suppresses the germination of Striga seeds.