Abstract
Two plantain-cassava intercropping experiments were conducted at the Teaching and Research Farm of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile–Ife. Each experiment was planted in a 2 x 2 factorial involving four mixture proportions arranged in Randomized Complete Block design with four replications. Growth, crop yields and productivity of plantain (Musa paradisiacal) and cassava (Manihot esculenta) were observed. The two intercrop populations for plantain were planted at 3 x 3m and 3 x 2m spacing. The two populations for cassava were planted at 1 x 1 and 1 x 0.5m spacing. In Experiment I, cassava was intercropped with plantain stands at the same time while in Experiment II, cassava was intercropped two months after plantain was planted. The results in Experiment I showed that growth, harvestable yields and productivity of plantain and cassava intercrops were enhanced by the plant populations of each intercrop Thus, suggesting that complementary rather than competitive yielding prevailed in the mixtures. The spatial and temporal factors in complementary yielding were discussed. The highest land use and monetary efficiency values were land equivalent ratio (LER), of 1.65, land equivalent coefficient (LEC) of 0.68 and monetary equivalent ratio (MER) of 1.62, which were obtained at the highest mixture plant population. Planting cassava two months after the planting of plantain (Experiment II) resulted in loss of intercropping advantage because plantain drastically affected associated cassava growth, yield and mixture productivity. Keywords: cassava, plantain, productivity, plant population Moor Journal of Agricultural Research Vol. 5(1) 2004: 26-32
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Claim · model-written summary
Intercrop population enhanced plantain growth, harvestable yield and productivity in experiment I.
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- plantainMusa ABB Groupe0
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- plant populations of each intercrope0
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- growth, harvestable yields and productivitye0
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e0“The results in Experiment I showed that growth, harvestable yields and productivity of plantain and cassava intercrops were enhanced by the plant populations of each intercrop”
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Intercrop population enhanced cassava growth, harvestable yield and productivity in experiment I.
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- cassava
Manihot esculentae0 - Treatment
- plant populations of each intercrope0
- Outcome
- growth, harvestable yields and productivitye0
- Direction
- enhancede0
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e0“The results in Experiment I showed that growth, harvestable yields and productivity of plantain and cassava intercrops were enhanced by the plant populations of each intercrop”
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The highest mixture population yielded a land equivalent ratio of 1.65.
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- highest mixture plant populatione0
- Outcome
- land equivalent ratio (LER)e0
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- higheste0
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- 1.65e0
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e0“The highest land use and monetary efficiency values were land equivalent ratio (LER), of 1.65, land equivalent coefficient (LEC) of 0.68 and monetary equivalent ratio (MER) of 1.62, which were obtained at the highest mixture plant population”
Claim · model-written summary
The highest mixture population yielded a land equivalent coefficient of 0.68.
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- highest mixture plant populatione0
- Outcome
- land equivalent coefficient (LEC)e0
- Direction
- higheste0
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- 0.68e0
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e0“The highest land use and monetary efficiency values were land equivalent ratio (LER), of 1.65, land equivalent coefficient (LEC) of 0.68 and monetary equivalent ratio (MER) of 1.62, which were obtained at the highest mixture plant population”
Claim · model-written summary
The highest mixture population yielded a monetary equivalent ratio of 1.62.
- Treatment
- highest mixture plant populatione0
- Outcome
- monetary equivalent ratio (MER)e0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Value
- 1.62e0
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e0“The highest land use and monetary efficiency values were land equivalent ratio (LER), of 1.65, land equivalent coefficient (LEC) of 0.68 and monetary equivalent ratio (MER) of 1.62, which were obtained at the highest mixture plant population”
Claim · model-written summary
Planting cassava two months after plantain removed the intercropping advantage through reduced cassava growth, yield and mixture productivity.
- Taxon
- cassavaManihot esculentae0
- Treatment
- Planting cassava two months after the planting of plantaine0
- Outcome
- cassava growth, yield and mixture productivitye0
- Direction
- losse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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e0“Planting cassava two months after the planting of plantain (Experiment II) resulted in loss of intercropping advantage because plantain drastically affected associated cassava growth, yield and mixture productivity”
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