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Effect of alley cropping of white popinac (Leucaena latisiliqua) on crop productivity and soil fertility under rainfed condition

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Title Effect of alley cropping of white popinac (Leucaena latisiliqua) on crop productivity and soil fertility under rainfed condition
 
Creator PRASAD, ARJUN
SINGH, RATAN
 
Subject white popinac, sorghum, pigeonpea, blackgram, advantage, organic carbon, fertility
 
Description A field experiment was conducted during 1981-82 to 1990-91 on a clay soil to study the effect of alley cropping of white popinac [Leucaena latisiliqua L.] Gillis; syn L. leucocephala (L.) de Wit] with field crop of sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench), sorghum + pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] and pigeonpea + blackgram (Phaseolus mungo L.) on crop productivity and soil fertility under rainfed condition. Hedge rows of white popinae at 3.75 m spacing grown with field crops reduced the grain yield of sorghum, sorghum + pigeonpea and pigeonpea + blackgram by 12.4, 13.6 and 16.9% respectively compared with the expected reduction of 20%. But the reduction in green-fodder yield of white popinac was 65.4, 73.6 and 63.0% compared with the expected reduction of 80% sole cropping at 0.75m spacing. The values. of land-equivatent ratio of 1.20-1.22 under white popinae grown with field crops were higher than of sole cropping. White popinac with sorghum + pigeonpea intercropping gave overall higher yield advantage by producing higher biomass as grain and fodder. Field crops with white popinac also improved the soil-fertility status by increasing the organic carbon, and ,the available N and P content of soils.
 
Publisher The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
 
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Date 2013-05-17
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/30143
 
Source The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences; Vol 67, No 12 (1997)
0019-5022
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/30143/13608
 
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