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Agricultural Science Digest, volume 32 issue 4 (december 2012) : 336 - 339

PERFORMANCE OF FODDER BASED INTERCROPPING OF SORGHUM [Sorghum bicolor L.], MAIZE [Zea mays L.] AND COWPEA [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] UNDER DIFFERENT ROW RATIO

Vaishali H. Surve*, P.R. Patil1, M.K. Arvadia
1Department of Agronomy, N. M. College of Agriculture, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari-396 450, India

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Cite article:- Surve* H. Vaishali, Patil1 P.R., Arvadia M.K. (2024). PERFORMANCE OF FODDER BASED INTERCROPPING OF SORGHUM [Sorghum bicolor L.], MAIZE [Zea mays L.] AND COWPEA [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] UNDER DIFFERENT ROW RATIO. Agricultural Science Digest. 32(4): 336 - 339. doi: .

ABSTRACT

Field experiments were conducted during summer seasons 2007 and 2008 at College Farm, Navsari Campus on clayey in texture soils with different cereal-legume fodders under sole and intercropping systems for getting higher fodder yield and returns. Green and dry fodder yields of sorghum/maize, cropping systems either sole sorghum or sorghum + cowpea in the ratio of 2:1 were equally good and significantly superior to rest of the systems. The intercropping of sorghum with cowpea in a row ratio of 2:1 recorded maximum land-equivalent ratio (1.51), gross (Rs 60744/- ha-1) and net (Rs 50031/- ha-1) realization along with higher benefit: cost ratio (5.67).

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