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EFFECT OF INTERCROPPING OF PULSES AND SUNFLOWER ON THE INCIDENCE OF SUCKING PESTS OF RAINFED COTTON

Volume : 74
Issue: Aug-sep
Pages: 364 - 368
Published: September 22, 2023
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Abstract


Incidence of sucking pests in cotton based intercropping system was studied in crop combinations of cotton + greengram, cotton + blackgram, cotton + cowpea, cotton + sunflower and cotton + lablab raised in paired rows and were compared with sole crops of cotton, blackgram, greengram, cowpea, lablab and sunflower: The population of leafhopper was significantly less in cotton when intercropped with sunflower, greengram and blackgram. Contrary to this, aphid infestation was less in pure crops of greengiam, blackgram and sunflower compared to crop combi- nations. Among the crop combinations tested, cotton + greengram recorded the highest gross income.

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364 - 368
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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.

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