Abstract
Six cowpea genotypes (Danila, IT96D-772, IT90K-277-2, IT95K-1091-3, IT96D-740, IT96D-757) were intercropped with a local millet cultivar using four row arrangements (1:1, 1:2, 2:2 and 2:4 millet to cowpea rows) in a field experiment conducted at Minjibir near Kano in the Sudan savanna ecological zone of Nigeria during the 1999 and 2000 wet seasons. Cowpea genotypes and row arrangement had no effect on the grain yield, yield attributes and partial LER of millet. However, millet panicle weight per m was significantly lower at 1:1 and 2:2 2 row arrangements compared to 1:2 and 2:4 arrangements in 2000. Mean cowpea grain yield was reduced by 47% as a result of intercropping with millet. Intercropped cowpea grain yield varied from 472 to 861 kg/ha, with IT90K-277-2 recording the highest grain yield and partial land equivalent ratio (LER). Grain yield and partial LER of cowpea were significantly higher at 2:4 row arrangement compared with the other row arrangements in both seasons. The highest total LER (1.26) and gross monetary return were obtained using the dual purpose improved medium maturing photoperiod insensitive genotype, IT90K-277-2. Row arrangement had no significant effect on the total LER in 1999 whilst in 2000 total LER was higher at 2:4 row arrangement relative to the other arrangements. In both seasons, the highest gross monetary return was obtained from 2:4 row arrangement.
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Claims 11
Claim · model-written summary
Cowpea genotype and row arrangement did not affect millet grain yield, yield attributes or partial LER.
- Taxon
- millete0
- Treatment
- Cowpea genotypes and row arrangemente0
- Outcome
- grain yield, yield attributes and partial LERe0
- Direction
- no effecte0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Cowpea genotypes and row arrangement had no effect on the grain yield, yield attributes and partial LER of millet”
Claim · model-written summary
Millet panicle weight was lower at 1:1 and 2:2 than at 1:2 and 2:4 in 2000.
Verbatim
e0“millet panicle weight per m was significantly lower at 1:1 and 2:2 2 row arrangements compared to 1:2 and 2:4 arrangements in 2000”
Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping with millet reduced mean cowpea grain yield by 47%.
- Taxon
- cowpea
Vigna unguiculatae0 - Treatment
- intercropping with millete0
- Outcome
- cowpea grain yielde0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- 47%e0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Mean cowpea grain yield was reduced by 47% as a result of intercropping with millet”
Claim · model-written summary
Intercropped cowpea grain yield ranged from 472 to 861 kg/ha.
- Taxon
- cowpeaVigna unguiculatae0
- Outcome
- grain yielde0
- Value
- 472 to 861 kg/hae0
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Verbatim
e0“Intercropped cowpea grain yield varied from 472 to 861 kg/ha”
Claim · model-written summary
IT90K-277-2 had the highest cowpea grain yield and partial LER.
- Taxon
- cowpeaVigna unguiculatat0
- Material
- IT90K-277-2e0
- Outcome
- grain yield and partial land equivalent ratio (LER)e0
- Direction
- higheste0
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Verbatim
t0“millet/cowpea intercrop”
e0“IT90K-277-2 recording the highest grain yield and partial land equivalent ratio (LER)”
Claim · model-written summary
Cowpea grain yield and partial LER were higher at 2:4 than other arrangements in both seasons.
- Taxon
- cowpeaVigna unguiculatae0
- Treatment
- 2:4 row arrangemente0
- Outcome
- Grain yield and partial LERe0
- Direction
- highere0
- Qualifier
- both seasonse0
- Comparator
- other row arrangementse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Grain yield and partial LER of cowpea were significantly higher at 2:4 row arrangement compared with the other row arrangements in both seasons”
Claim · model-written summary
IT90K-277-2 produced the highest total LER of 1.26.
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Verbatim
t0“millet/cowpea intercrop”
e0“The highest total LER (1.26) and gross monetary return were obtained using the dual purpose improved medium maturing photoperiod insensitive genotype, IT90K-277-2”
Claim · model-written summary
IT90K-277-2 produced the highest gross monetary return.
- Taxon
- cowpeaVigna unguiculatat0
- Material
- IT90K-277-2e0
- Outcome
- gross monetary returne0
- Direction
- higheste0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“millet/cowpea intercrop”
e0“The highest total LER (1.26) and gross monetary return were obtained using the dual purpose improved medium maturing photoperiod insensitive genotype, IT90K-277-2”
Claim · model-written summary
Row arrangement did not significantly affect total LER in 1999.
- Taxon
- cowpeaVigna unguiculatat0
- Treatment
- Row arrangemente0
- Outcome
- total LERe0
- Direction
- no significant effecte0
- Qualifier
- 1999e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“millet/cowpea intercrop”
e0“Row arrangement had no significant effect on the total LER in 1999”
Claim · model-written summary
Total LER was higher at 2:4 than other arrangements in 2000.
- Taxon
- cowpeaVigna unguiculatat0
- Treatment
- 2:4 row arrangemente0
- Outcome
- total LERe0
- Direction
- highere0
- Qualifier
- 2000e0
- Comparator
- other arrangementse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“millet/cowpea intercrop”
e0“in 2000 total LER was higher at 2:4 row arrangement relative to the other arrangements”
Claim · model-written summary
The 2:4 arrangement produced the highest gross monetary return in both seasons.
- Taxon
- cowpeaVigna unguiculatat0
- Treatment
- 2:4 row arrangemente0
- Outcome
- gross monetary returne0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Qualifier
- both seasonse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“millet/cowpea intercrop”
e0“In both seasons, the highest gross monetary return was obtained from 2:4 row arrangement”
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