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Residual Effects Of Pigeonpea (Cajanus Cajan)

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Title Residual Effects Of Pigeonpea (Cajanus Cajan)
 
Creator Rao, J V D K K
Dart, P J
Sastry, P V S S
 
Subject Pigeonpea
 
Description An experiment cunducted on a Vertisol field at ICRISAT
compared the rc\rdunl efiect ot monocropped pigconpea, intcrcropped
prgronpcii \orphun~( I row:2 rows) with 0 and 80 kg N/ ha,
monocropped so~ghunl wrth O and 80 kg N/ha, and fallow
treatments on a s~~bscquenmta vc crop. Monocropped pigconpea
had a large resrdual etlect on rnalre, increasing the grain yield by
57% and total plant dry matter by 32"/0 over fallow. lntercropped
pigeonpea had l~ttlc re\~dual cffect on maize. Eknefits from a
prevlous crop ot monocropped plgeonpea were equivalent to about
40 kg b ha appllcd to thc ni,ll/r crop grown in land kept fallow
during the previous rlilnj scason.
 
Date 1981
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4034/1/CP_045.pdf
Rao, J V D K K and Dart, P J and Sastry, P V S S (1981) Residual Effects Of Pigeonpea (Cajanus Cajan). In: Biological Nitrogen Fixation Technology for Tropical Agriculture, 9-13 March 1981, Cali, Colombia.