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Pigeonpea Ratooning Trial Under Conservation Agriculture

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

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Title Pigeonpea Ratooning Trial Under Conservation Agriculture
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YSWKT4
 
Creator International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
Zambian Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI)
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This study contains data generated from the on-station trial that was conducted to evaluate the various management methods that are being advocated in the region. The following treatments were used for this trial.


  1. Sole maize continuous

  2. Full Pigeonpea/maize rotation

  3. Maize + Pigeonpea full growth no ratooning

  4. Maize + Pigeonpea, uprooting at harvest and re-seeding every year

  5. Maize + Pigeonpea, ratooning at harvest and at seeding

  6. . Maize + Pigeonpea, ratooning at harvest and 2 weeks after maize seeding

  7. Maize + Pigeonpea, ratooning at harvest and 3 weeks after maize seeding

  8. Maize + cut Pigeonpea from last season at ground level 2 weeks after maize
    planting and reseed

  9. Maize + delay planting of maize by a minimum of 14 days, cut Pigeonpea at base, reseed Pigeonpea with maize 14 days after the planting window.

 
Subject Agricultural Sciences
Social Sciences
conservation agriculture
ratooning
intercropping
sole cropping
crop rotation
pigeon peas
maize
ZAMBIA
SOUTHERN AFRICA
AFRICA
 
Language English
 
Date 2019
 
Contributor IFPRI-KM
Thierfelder, Christian (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT))
Mwila, Mulundu (Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI))
 
Type experimental data