Vol. 7, Issue 5 (2019)

As regards to yield attributes of cotton, intercropping of green gram, black gram, soybean and sesamum in skip row planting of cotton and both the sole cropping pattern proved similar in producing number of sympodial branches in flowering stage and they were superior to pearl millet as intercrop in skipped row. However, soybean was inferior intercrop than black gram in later stages. Dry matter accumulation in cotton was influenced during flowering stage only. Solid sole and sole skip row planting of cotton proved better than all the intercropping treatments in respect of dry matter accumulation. Average weight of seed cotton boll^-1 and seed cotton yield plant^-1 were higher in skip row planting of cotton + sesamum (2:1). There was a drastic reduction in yield of seed cotton plant^-1 when cotton was grown with pearl millet. Skip row planting of cotton registered the highest seed cotton yield than skip row planting of cotton + pearl millet (2:1) however, it is on par with rest of the treatments. Similar trend was observed in respect of yield of stalk (kg ha^-1). Sesamum (1.33), green gram (1.27) and black gram (1.22) grown as intercrop in skip row planting of cotton recorded higher Land Equivalent Ratio. Cotton grown as either sole skip row (19.66 q ha^-1) or with intercrops viz., green gram (21.93 q ha^-1), black gram (20.95 q ha^-1), soybean (19.82 q ha^-1) and sesamum (20.56 q ha^-1) recorded higher seed cotton equivalent yield than cotton + pearl millet (13.41 q ha^-1) intercropping system. Similar trend was observed in respect of gross and net monetary returns. Skip row planting of cotton + green gram (2:1) (2.87) recorded the highest B:C ratio, followed by skip row planting of cotton + black gram (2:1) (2.75) and skip row planting of cotton + sesamum (2:1) (2.74).