Effect Of Intercropping Legumes On Yield Biomass And Sheep Growth Book Depository

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Effect Of Intercropping Legumes On Yield Biomass And Sheep Growth Book Depository

Chapter 3 is on crop rotation and intercropping cowpea with maize. In addition soil fertility is improved when legumes are intercropped with cereal forages iqbal et al.

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Lathyroides were similar but significantly higher than the rest of the other legumes p005.

[PDF] Free Download Effect Of Intercropping Legumes On Yield Biomass And Sheep Growth. Shattering score pods per plant and seeds per pod for soybean only. Cowpea growth and yield. Effect of legume based intercropping on crop yield.

Significantly high yield number of tillers in sugarcane was obtained in sole cropping and cropping at 100 sugarcane s 25 cowpea c. Two field experiments were conducted in hawaii to study the effect of three legume species intercropped with sweet corn zea mays l on the growth relative chlorophyll content biomass and yield of sweet corn. A review effect of intercropping with legume on yields of some crops was reviewed.

Data collection included germination plant height days to 50 flowering days to 75 maturity yield biomass per plant 100 grain weight grain yield harvest index and land equivalent ratio for both crops. Effect of maize cowpea cropping system on soil moisture content. Chapter 5 is on the effect of crop rotation and intercropping on cowpea crude protein.

Intercropping with legumes result in increased resource capture by component crops and improve soil microbial activity along with better efficiency of resource conversion which triggers higher biomass production alvey et al. Chapter 4 is on crop rotation and intercropping cowpea and maize. Intercropping may increase diversity of farm products reduce input costs and increase farm profitability.

The biomass yield of the individual legumes showed that s. Total biomass yield of mm was higher than those of other integrations p005 but sole maize yielded the lowest biomass 47 tha p005. The results indicted that intercropping forage legumes with maize did not significantly affect the growth and grain yield of maize p005.

Intercropping as a simultaneous growing of two or more crops in the same field is a cropping system that has long been used for a long time especially in the tropics to increase productivity and sustainability through maximum utilization of land labor and growth resources hence the study was conducted to evaluate growth and yield effect of maize variety intercropped with two legumes on the field at the teaching and research farm of federal university wukaritaraba state nigeria. Maize growth and yield. Cereal legumes intercropping is among the most economical and effective agronomic strategies to boost forage biomass production nutritional quality and monetary returns.

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