Agro-Economic Relationship of Component Crops in a Mash Sesamum Intercropping System
Titel:
Agro-Economic Relationship of Component Crops in a Mash Sesamum Intercropping System
Auteur:
Abbas Ali H.M. Akram Muhammad Sarfraz lqbal Allah Yar Mushtaq A. Nadeem M. Saeed K.A. Sahi
Verschenen in:
Pakistan journal of biological sciences
Paginering:
Jaargang 7 (2004) nr. 1 pagina's 69-72
Jaar:
2004
Inhoud:
A field study comprising of intercropping treatments viz. mash alone, sesamum alone, mash intercropped with one, two, three and four rows of sesamum, was conducted during the year 1998 and 1999. Mash was planted in the pattern of 100 cm apart four row strips (20/100 cm) while sesamum was intercropped between the mash strips according to the treatments. Mash yield was reduced by 16.60, 35.10, 48.40 and 59.46% by sesamum intercropping in the pattern of one, two three and four rows, respectively. However, at the cost of this much reduction in mash yield, an additional harvest of 6.22, 7.85 and 9.82 q ha-1 of sesamum, respectively was obtained which compensated more than the losses in mash production. The best intercropping system appeared to be mash + four rows of sesamum in all respects
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