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Intercropping with Sorghum in Nigeria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

D. J. Andrews
D. J. Andrews
Affiliation:
Institute for Agricultural Research, Samaru, Zaria, Nigeria
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Summary

At Samaru (11° 10′N, 7° 39′E) the growing season for rain-fed annual crops is 180 to 200days. Sole cropping, relay cropping and intercropping of long season sorghum, early millet or maize and late planted cowpeas were evaluated for most effective use of this period, all crops being cultivated mechanically. Relay cropping and intercropping gave 59 and 80 per cent more return per acre respectively than a sole crop of sorghum, the increases coming mainly from higher cereal yields. Some criteria applicable to intercropping are recognized.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , April 1972 , pp. 139 - 150
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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