Vol. 7, Issue 6 (2019)
Effect of various land configuration and foliar sprays on economics of soybean + pigeonpea intercropping under rainfed conditions
Author(s): Lewade AD, Narkhede WN, Mehere SS and Masurkar AU
Abstract: Present experimentation was conducted during kharif 2016 at farm, AICRP on Integrated Farming Systems, VNMKV, Parbhani (M.S.) on clayey textured soil to study the "effect of land configurations and foliar sprays on Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) + Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Mill sp.) Intercropping system under rainfed conditionâ€. The experiment consisted of 3 main plots and 4 sub main plot treatments in a split plot design which were replicated thrice. Main treatments consist of three land configuration viz., Flat Bed & Ridges and Furrow with 4:2 soybean + pigeonpea intercrop ratio and Broad Bed Furrow with 2:1 soybean + pigeonpea intercrop ratio and four foliar sprays viz., Water, Kaolin @ 6%, KNO3 @ 2% and MgCO3 @ 5% applied to sub plots. The outcome revealed that cultivation of intercrop on BBF produced higher soybean equivalent yield, gross monetary returns, net monetary returns and B:C ratio. The spray of KNO3 2% resulted in significantly higher soybean equivalent yield, gross monetary returns, net monetary returns and B:C ratio over sprays of water, Kaolin @ 6% and MgCO3 @ 5%. Because of high cost of MgCO3, it incurred more cost of cultivation, thus low net monetary returns and benefit: cost ratio recorded in this treatment. Interaction effect between land configuration and foliar spray were non significant.
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Lewade AD, Narkhede WN, Mehere SS, Masurkar AU. Effect of various land configuration and foliar sprays on economics of soybean + pigeonpea intercropping under rainfed conditions. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(6):491-493.
