Venkateswarlu, J. and Sanghi, N.K. and Baskara Rao, U.M. and Hanunantha Rao, Ch. (1981) Maximizing production in a sorghum/pigeonpea intercropping system in the semi-arid tropics. In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Intercropping, 10-13 January, 1979, Hyderabad, India.
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Abstract
The semi-arid tropical region of India can increase cropping intensity only through intercropping, since soil moisture storage is poor. The ideal intercrops for the region are sorghum and pigeonpea, but traditional intercropping methods are inefficient. Experiments show that a full yield of sorghum and 60% pf the pigeonpea yield could be achieved by (1) switching over to high-yielding hybrids of sorghum (CSH-5/CSH-6) and 150-day varieties of pigeonpea (HY-2), (2) using 40-30-0 kg N, P2O5, and K20/ha, (3) adopting suitable plant-protection measures, and (4) resorting to a 3:1 system of planting with 120,000 plants/ha populations of sorghum and 40,000 plants/ha populations of pigeonpea at 45 cm
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Author Affiliation: | All-India Coordinated Research Project for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad, India |
| Subjects: | Plant Production |
| Divisions: | Pigeonpea Sorghum |
| Depositing User: | Ms K Syamalamba |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Feb 2013 09:07 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Feb 2013 09:07 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/9570 |
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