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 |
Field studies were conducted for three consecutive Rabi seasons during 2014 to 2017 in a 30-year old mango mother orchard where trees were not allowed to bear fruit and only scion materials were obtained for grafting purpose to get planting materials of mango. The orchard trees are planted at a distance of 10×10 m. The eight different vegetable intercrops viz., garlic (Local variety), pea (Azad P-1), carrot (Pusa kesar), palak (All green), coriander (Pant haritima), onion (Patna red), radish (Snow white) and French bean (P-44) were grown in the orchard. The trial was conducted in a randomized block design, each treatment replicated thrice. Based on pooled mean yield of intercrops over three years, result indicated that yield of different intercrops varied significantly and the maximum yield (206.07 q/ha) was recorded in palak followed by onion (197.78 q/ha). The lowest yield was recorded in coriander (51.33 q/ha). The net income in Indian Rupee per hectare was the highest in onion intercrop (2,40,052) followed by garlic (1,73,124). The maximum benefit cost ratio (3.14) was recorded in onion intercrop. The highest partial factor productivity of applied nitrogen (197.78 kg yield/kg N) and substantially higher economic efficiency (2000.43 Rs./ha/day) was also recorded in onion intercrop. Thus, the result demonstrated that intercropping of vegetables particularly onion in mango mother tree orchard is a highly remunerative proposition augmenting yield and economic return to farmers..
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