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On-Farm Green Manure Cover Crop (GMCC) Intercropping Strategy Trial under Conservation Agriculture

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title On-Farm Green Manure Cover Crop (GMCC) Intercropping Strategy Trial under Conservation Agriculture
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IYWWJH
 
Creator International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
Zambian Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI)
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This study contains data originated from on-farm trials that were conducted to provide viable options to smallholder farmers to improve soil fertility and human nutrition, to increase biomass for fodder and groundcover and to enhance the resilience of current farming systems against the negative effects of climate variability and change. Green manures or cover crop were used as the option. The trials were conducted at farms in Chipata and Lundazi districts of the eastern province of Zambia.
The following treatments were used for the trial:
  • Sole cropping maize

  • Maize – Pigeonpea intercropping

  • Maize – Pigeonpea intercropping with 60-day cowpea

  • Maize – Dolichos Lablab intercropping

  • Maize/Gliricidia sepium/pigeonpea intercrop (year 1: groundnuts/Gliricidia; Year 2 soybean/pigeonpea/Gliricidia; year 3 Maize/Pigeonpea/Gliricidia

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    Subject Agricultural Sciences
    Social Sciences
    conservation agriculture
    climate-smart agriculture
    intercropping
    sole cropping
    crop rotation
    maize
    pigeon peas
    Lablab purpureus
    ZAMBIA
    SOUTHERN AFRICA
    AFRICA
     
    Language English
     
    Date 2018
     
    Contributor IFPRI-KM
    Thierfelder, Christian (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT))
    Mwila, Mulundu (Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI))
     
    Type experimental data