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Minimizing Yield Losses of Sugarcane When Grown with a Wheat Companion Crop by Fertilizer and Water Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

R. S. Verma  and
R. L. Yadav
R. S. Verma
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Lucknow, India
R. L. Yadav
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Lucknow, India
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Summary

In sub-tropical India where 70% of the country's sugarcane is grown, companion cropping of wheat in autumn-planted sugarcane is beneficial. However, because the yield of sugarcane is reduced, farmers there are reluctant to adopt this cropping system in spite of the greater monetary gains compared with wheat-sugarcane sequential cropping. Application of 200 kg nitrogen ha−1 to sugarcane in two doses, two-thirds immediately after the wheat harvest and the remainder a month later, combined with irrigation at 75% available soil moisture during the summer months (April–June), produced cane yields similar to those from sole autumn-planted sugarcane, with an additional 4.8 t ha−1 of wheat.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , January 1988 , pp. 115 - 121
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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