Citation Information

  • Title : Potato based intercropping with sorghum in the hot to warm moist valleys of North Shewa, Ethiopia.
  • Source : World Journal of Agricultural Sciences
  • Publisher : IDOSI Publications
  • Volume : 6
  • Issue : 5
  • Pages : 485-488
  • Year : 2010
  • Document Type : Journal Article
  • Language : English
  • Authors:
    • Asnakech, T.
    • Adamu, M.
  • Climates: Marintime/Oceanic (Cfb, Cfc, Cwb).
  • Cropping Systems: Intercropping. Sorghum.
  • Countries:

Summary

It is becoming a necessity to intensify crop production in the face of the ever shrinking per capita agricultural land Experiences elsewhere suggest that intercropping potato with sorghum could be a feasible alternative so as to intensify production and give cash and food source alternatives for subsistence farmers. Three intercrop proportions (intercropping full density of potato with 75, 50 and 25% of sole crop density of sorghum) were compared with sole crops of potato and sorghum in a RCB of four replications for two years on sites representing sandy clay loam and clay black soil so as to determine compatible proportions of sorghum for intercropping with full density of potato. Marketable tuber yield of potato on sandy clay loam soil was not significantly affected by intercropping but it was significantly (P

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