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Title Influence of canopy pruning on tree growth and grain yield of intercrops in
 
Creator NEWAJ, RAM
DAR, SHABIR AHMAD
DHYANI, S K
 
Subject Agrisilviculture; Canopy pruning; Intercrops; Unpruned tree
 
Description A field experiment was conducted during 2005–07 at Jhansi to elucidate the influence of shoot pruning on growth of [Albizia procera (Roxb.) Benth] and grain yield of intercrop. The experiment was conducted in split plot design with 2 crop sequences, namely blackgram (Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper) – mustard (Brassica juncia L. Czern. & Coss.) and greengram (Vigna radiata Roxb.) – wheat (Triticum aestivum L. emend. Friori & Paol.) with 3 pruning regimes (70% canopy pruning, 50% canopy pruning and control unpruned). The results reveal that the growth of A. procera (dbh, height and canopy diameter) was significantly (P ≤ 0.05) higher in control (unpruned trees) compared with the 50% canopy pruning and 70% canopy pruning. Grain yield of greengram–wheat crop sequence was 41.21 and 83.45% higher than the blackgram–mustard crop sequence. Among the pruning regimes, 70% canopy pruning gave 129.94% higher grain yield than the control (unpruned trees).
 
Publisher The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
 
Contributor ICAR
 
Date 2010-07-12
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/201
 
Source The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences; Vol 80, No 5 (2010)
0019-5022
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/201/186
 
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