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- Title
Productivity, relative yield and plant growth of forage corn intercropped with soybean under different crop combination ratio.
- Authors
Baghdadi, Ali; Halim, Ridzwan A.; Othman, Radziah; Yusof, Martini Mohammad; Mahdavi Atashgahi, Ali Reza
- Abstract
An experiment was carried out to evaluate influence of different crop combination ratios of corn and soybean in terms of forage yield in corn-soybean intercropping. The experiment compared both corn and soybean as monocultures and in different intercropping ratios from 25:75, 50:50 and 75:25 of corn to soybean. The crop combination ratio had significant effects on physiological traits and dry matter yield of forage. The ratio of 75:25 and 50:50 recorded DM yields similar to those of monocropped corn (14.77 t/ha). Relative yield total (RYT) values of intercropping were higher than that of monocrop corn and soybean. Mixtures with 50:50 combination ratio had higher mean total relative yield values (1.15) in comparison with the other ratios. Land equivalent ratio (LER) increased with corn-soybean intercropping and the highest total LER value was recorded with 50:50 ratio (1.13). The crop ratio of 50:50 gave the best combination based on DM yield, relative yield, LER of the combined forage.
- Subjects
CORN growth; SOYBEAN; INTERCROPPING; FORAGE plant yield; MONOCULTURE agriculture
- Publication
Legume Research: An International Journal, 2016, Vol 39, Issue 4, p558
- ISSN
0250-5371
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18805/lr.v0iOF.10755