Performance of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum)-Rapeseed (Brassica campestris) intercropping system with different row ratios in Bundelkhand conditions
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2021-09-18
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Banda University of Agriculture & Technology, Banda-210001, Uttar Pradesh, India
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An investigation was carried out during rabi 2019-20 on silty clay loam soil at IFS
Farm, Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda to find out the effects of
different row ratios on growth and yield of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum)-Rapeseed
(Brassica campestris) intercropping system. In replacement series, six chickpea + rapeseed
intercropping combinations (1:1, 1:2, 2:1, 2:2, 3:1, 3:2) were tried with sole chickpea and
sole rapeseed in three replications. The ‘JG 14’ and ‘Pitambari’ varieties were used of
crops chickpea and rapeseed, respectively. The important findings obtained from this
investigation are presented here in brief:
The growth and yield attributes of intercropping system were recorded significantly
highest in 3:1 (chickpea + rapeseed) row ratio followed by 3:2 (chickpea + rapeseed) and
2:2 (chickpea + rapeseed). The row ratio 1:2 (chickpea + rapeseed) performed lowest
among all. The 3:1 (chickpea + rapeseed) intercropping system produced significantly
highest chickpea equivalent yield (28.40 q/ha), land equivalent ratio (1.32), net income (Rs
1,01,302/ha) and B: C (2.73) ratio.
It is proved from these results that to get higher productivity and profit from
chickpea + rapeseed intercropping, it may be grown in replacement series with row
proportion of 3:1 followed by 3:2 under the Bundelkhand condition.
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Manthan Chaudhary 2021. Performance of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum)-Rapeseed (Brassica campestris) intercropping system with different row ratios in Bundelkhand conditions. M.Sc. Thesis. 69p.