National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
A field experiment was conducted during kharif season of 2018 at Zonal Agricultural Research Station, Vishweswaraiah Canal Farm, Mandya to study the productivity and quality of different cereal-legume intercropping systems. The treatments consist of three intercropping systems viz., maize + cowpea (3:1), sorghum + cowpea (3:1) and bajra Napier hybrid + cowpea (2:8) and four sole crops like maize, sorghum, bajra Napier hybrid and cowpea. Among different treatments, higher green fodder yield (552.17 q/ha), dry fodder yield (110.37 q/ha), crude fodder yield (19.59 q/ha), total digestible crude fodder yield (18.33 q/ha), ash yield (12.73 q/ha), fat yield (3.33 q/ha), fibre yield (30.78 q/ha) and carbohydrate yield (29.46 q/ha) were noticed in bajra Napier hybrid + cowpea system. The higher content of crude protein was observed in sole cowpea (20.5 %) while higher dry matter (22.97 %), fibre (34.17 %) and carbohydrate (34.43 %) content were observed in sole sorghum compared to other treatments. Bajra Napier hybrid + cowpea performed well both quality and quantity wise and can be a best system.
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