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The authors consider cowpeas promising for intercropping with maize.
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e0“are promising as a legume for intercropping with maize”
Title
Intercropping Maize with Climbing Beans, Cowpeas and Velvet Beans
W. B. Bryan; M. B. Materu Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 1987. doi:10.1111/j.1439-037x.1987.tb00096.x
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation Climbing beans contributed up to 5% of total dry matter in the first intercrop experiment.
- Observation Climbing beans contributed 20% of total dry matter in the second experiment.
- Observation Cowpeas contributed 12% of total dry matter in the second experiment.
- Observation Velvet beans contributed 8% of total dry matter in the second experiment.
- Intervention effect Increasing maize populations increased grain and dry matter yields.
- Intervention effect Increasing climbing bean populations increased grain and dry matter yields.
- Intervention effect Intercropping lowered maize dry matter yield.
- Intervention effect Total intercrop dry matter yield did not differ from sole maize.
- Intervention effect Maize with cowpeas yielded more dry matter than maize with climbing beans.
- Intervention effect Cowpeas increased total crude protein yield by over 15% relative to maize alone.
- Intervention effect Cowpea intercropping did not lower total dry matter compared with maize alone.
- Recommendation The authors consider climbing beans of little promise for intercropping with maize.