Abstract
Field experiment was conducted in 2004 and 2005 to investigate the responses of two Carica papaya L varieties (Homestead and Sunrise solo) to three cropping systems: sole pawpaw, pawpaw + okra and pawpaw + cucumber using 10 t/ha organo-mineral fertilizer as basal treatment. The objective of the study was to determine the compatibility of pawpawwith okra and cucumber vegetables. Intercropping significantly decreased pawpaw plant height, stem girth, number of leaves, leaf area and canopy spread in the first year while it sustained LER. The LER, growth and yield in both years indicated that Sunrise solo was more compatible with cucumber and Homestead selection with okra. Significant differences were recorded between Sunrise solo number of fruits/plant, 58.89 and Homestead, 38.44and the fruit yield/plant, 22.35 t/ha respectively. Okra significantly depressed fruit yield of both varieties more than cucumber with sole, +okra and +cucumber crop mixtures recording 24.32, 20.27 and 22.55 ton/ha under Sunrise solo and 42.66, 24.54 and 39.16 ton/ha under Homestead respectively. The result should show that papaya could be inter-croppedwith vegetable at the early vegetative stages to sustain land utilization as well as total productivity.
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Claims 9
Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping reduced five pawpaw growth traits in the first year.
- Taxon
- pawpaw
Asimina trilobae0 - Treatment
- Intercroppinge0
- Outcome
- plant height, stem girth, number of leaves, leaf area and canopy spreade0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Qualifier
- in the first yeare0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Intercropping significantly decreased pawpaw plant height, stem girth, number of leaves, leaf area and canopy spread in the first year”
Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping sustained land equivalent ratio.
- Taxon
- pawpawAsimina trilobae1
- Treatment
- Intercroppinge1
- Outcome
- LERe0
- Direction
- sustainede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“while it sustained LER”
e1“Intercropping significantly decreased pawpaw plant height”
Claim · model-written summary
Sunrise solo was more compatible with cucumber.
- Taxon
- Carica papaya L
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Carica papayae1 - Material
- Sunrise soloe0
- Outcome
- more compatible with cucumbere0
- Direction
- more compatiblee0
- Comparator
- cucumbere0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“Sunrise solo was more compatible with cucumber”
e1“two Carica papaya L varieties (Homestead and Sunrise solo)”
Claim · model-written summary
Homestead selection was more compatible with okra.
- Taxon
- Carica papaya LCarica papayae2
- Material
- Homesteade0
- Outcome
- Homestead selection with okrae0
- Direction
- more compatiblee1
- Comparator
- okrae0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Homestead selection with okra”
e1“Sunrise solo was more compatible with cucumber and Homestead selection with okra”
e2“two Carica papaya L varieties (Homestead and Sunrise solo)”
Claim · model-written summary
Sunrise solo had 58.89 fruits per plant versus 38.44 for Homestead.
- Taxon
- Carica papaya LCarica papayae1
- Material
- Sunrise soloe0
- Outcome
- number of fruits/plante0
- Direction
- higherinferrede0
- Value
- 58.89e0
- Qualifier
- 38.44e0
- Comparator
- Homesteade0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Significant differences were recorded between Sunrise solo number of fruits/plant, 58.89 and Homestead, 38.44and”
e1“two Carica papaya L varieties (Homestead and Sunrise solo)”
Claim · model-written summary
Okra depressed fruit yield more than cucumber for both pawpaw varieties.
- Taxon
- Carica papaya LCarica papayae1
- Treatment
- Okrae0
- Outcome
- fruit yielde0
- Direction
- depressede0
- Comparator
- cucumbere0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Okra significantly depressed fruit yield of both varieties more than cucumber”
e1“two Carica papaya L varieties (Homestead and Sunrise solo)”
Claim · model-written summary
For Sunrise solo, sole, okra and cucumber systems yielded 24.32, 20.27 and 22.55 ton/ha.
- Taxon
- Carica papaya LCarica papayae1
- Material
- Sunrise soloe0
- Outcome
- crop mixtures recordinge0
- Value
- 24.32, 20.27 and 22.55 ton/hae0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“sole, +okra and +cucumber crop mixtures recording 24.32, 20.27 and 22.55 ton/ha under Sunrise solo”
e1“two Carica papaya L varieties (Homestead and Sunrise solo)”
Claim · model-written summary
For Homestead, sole, okra and cucumber systems yielded 42.66, 24.54 and 39.16 ton/ha.
- Taxon
- Carica papaya LCarica papayae1
- Material
- Homesteade0
- Outcome
- 42.66, 24.54 and 39.16 ton/hae0
- Value
- 42.66, 24.54 and 39.16 ton/hae0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“42.66, 24.54 and 39.16 ton/ha under Homestead respectively”
e1“two Carica papaya L varieties (Homestead and Sunrise solo)”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommended early vegetable intercropping to sustain land use and productivity.
- Taxon
- papayaCarica papayae0
- Outcome
- inter-croppedwith vegetable at the early vegetative stages to sustain land utilization as well as total productivitye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“papaya could be inter-croppedwith vegetable at the early vegetative stages to sustain land utilization as well as total productivity”