INTERCROPPING SOME WARM SEASON ANNUAL FORAGE LEGUMES WITH EACH OTHER IN TEMPERATE REGIONS
2015
ALEKSANDAR MIKIĆ | MIHAILOVIĆ, VOJISLAV | VUJIĆ, SVETLANA | ĆUPINA, BRANKO | ĐORĐEVIĆ, VUK | TOMIĈIĆ, MARINA | PERIĆ, VESNA
Intercropping annual legumes with each other for both forage and grain production is a relatively novel agricultural practice. The goal of this paper was to test some warm season mutual annual legume intercrops in the conditions of a temperate environment such as Serbia. A small-plot trial, conducted at the Experimental Field of the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops at Rimski Šančevi in 2010, 2011 and 2012, comprised pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Huth) as supporting crop and hyacinth bean (Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet) and velvet bean (Mucuna pru- riens (L.) DC.) as supported crops. Velvet bean had the highest total forage dry matter yield among the sole crops (15.2 t ha-1), while the intercrop with 25 % of pigeon pea and 75 % of velvet bean had the highest one among the intercrops (15,5 t ha-1). The intercrop of 25 % of pigeon pea with 75 % of hyacinth bean was most economically reliable by having the highest land equivalent ratio (1,19).
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