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EFFECT OF SORGHUM AND NITROGEN LEVELS ON LEGUME INTERCROPS

Volume : 83
Issue: Jan-jan
Pages: 29 - 31
Published: July 06, 2023
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Abstract


A 2 year rainfed experiment consisting of intercropping of 3 legumes, black gram Vigna mungo (Linn) Hepper) pigeonpea (Cajanus cajun (Linn. Millsp.) and soybean Glycine max (linn) Merr.) in between wide (60 cm) and paired (30/60 cm) rows of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (Linn). Moench) with 4 N levels i.e. 0.40, 80 and 120 kg/ha applied to sorghum crop showed that grain and straw yields of legume were higher in wide row inter cropping system as compared to paired row intercropping. Application of N to sorghum crop reduced pods/plant, grain weight/plant, grain and straw yield of black gram and pigeonpea while soybean remained unaffected. Maturity period of black gram and pigeanpea was also delayed by N application to sorghum crop.

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29 - 31
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

Keywords


Legume Intercrops Nitrogen Sorghum Effect
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