Productivity, relative yield and plant growth of forage corn intercroppedwith soybean under different crop combination ratio | Zendy

Ali Baghdadi | Zendy; R. A. Halim | Zendy; Radziah Othman | Zendy; Martini Mohammad Yusof | Zendy; Ali Reza Mahdavi Atashgahi | Zendy

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Productivity, relative yield and plant growth of forage corn intercroppedwith soybean under different crop combination ratio

Author(s) -

Ali Baghdadi,

R. A. Halim,

Radziah Othman,

Martini Mohammad Yusof,

Ali Reza Mahdavi Atashgahi

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

legume research - an international journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.397

H-Index - 13

eISSN - 0976-0571

pISSN - 0250-5371

DOI - 10.18805/lr.v0iof.10755

Subject(s) - intercropping , forage , agronomy , monocropping , yield (engineering) , crop , monoculture , mathematics , dry matter , biology , agriculture , cropping , ecology , materials science , metallurgy

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.

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