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On-Station 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-Station Green Manure Cover Crop (GMCC) Intercropping Strategy Trial under Conservation Agriculture
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KIXV7U
 
Creator International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
Zambian Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI)
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

This study contains data originated from on-station trials that were conducted to evaluate the performance of green manure cover crops on crop productivity, and soil quality and residual effects. These trials were conducted at Msekera Research Station in Zambia. The following treatments were used.

  • Maize – sole cropping

  • Maize – Pigeonpea intercropping

  • Lablab – sole cropping (in rotation with maize in year 2)

  • Maize – lablab intercropping planted at the same time as maize

  • Maize – lablab intercropping planted 1 week later than maize

  • Maize – lablab intercropping planted 3 weeks after the maize

  • Cowpea - sole cropping (in rotation with maize in year 2)

  • Maize - Cowpea intercropping planted at the same time as maize


    • The following were used as sub-treatments.

  • No fertilizer addition

  • Application of 100kg ha-1 Compound D (10:20:10)


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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
    AGROVOC
     
    Language English
     
    Date 2019
     
    Contributor IFPRI-KM
    Thierfelder, Christian (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT))
    Mwila, Mulundu (Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI))
    Catholic Relief Services
    Grassroots Trust
     
    Relation On-Farm Green Manure Cover Crop (GMCC) Intercropping Strategy Trial under Conservation Agriculture
     
    Type experimental data