Assessment of mechanized sown cotton-based intercropping systems: Impact on yield, efficiency and profitability DOI Open Access

M. Saranya,

SP Sangeetha,

P. M. Shanmugam

et al.

Plant Science Today, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 11(sp4)

Published: Nov. 29, 2024

Cotton, a valuable cash crop from the Gossypium genus, significantly contributes to national economy. A primary challenge in cotton cultivation is high labor demand for sowing. As shortages grow, sowing machinery has emerged as viable alternative, decreasing expenses and operating duration. However, machine requires wider inter-row spacing, cotton's slow initial vegetative growth presents an opportunity incorporate suitable intercrops. This technique optimizes resource utilization offers potential supplementary income intercropping event of failure due natural disasters. study aims identify systems under mechanized conditions enhance yield, competitive indices, energy efficiency, economic viability, supporting sustainable farmer incomes. The experiment employed split-plot design with two main plots, five subplots, three replications. Results showed that was more profitable than manual sowing, reducing costs by 19.6% increasing net returns 22.7%, per-day return 22.6%. Among systems, + maize demonstrated superior performance, achieving higher cotton-equivalent yield (22.2%), land equivalent ratio (32.0%), area-time (21.0%), use efficiency (57.4%), productivity (63.5%), (29.6%) compared sole cotton. concluded improves energy, enhancing overall farm productivity.

Language: Английский

Efecto de la asociación repollo, lechuga, perejil y acelga sobre la incidencia de malezas y el rendimiento del repollo DOI Creative Commons
Marcos Antonio Sánchez González,

Nidia Adriana Benítez Del Padre,

E. Lovera

et al.

Revista Facultad Nacional de Agronomía Medellín, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 78(1), P. 10959 - 10965

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

El presente trabajo tuvo como objetivo evaluar el efecto de la asociación repollo, lechuga, perejil y acelga sobre ocurrencia malezas parámetros rendimiento del repollo. La investigación se realizó en campus Facultad Ciencias Agrarias Universidad Concepción, Paraguay. Los tratamientos utilizados fueron repollo (T1), repollo+lechuga (T2), repollo+acelga (T3) repollo+perejil (T4). diseño utilizado fue parcelas subdivididas con cuatro seis repeticiones, totalizando 24 Unidades Experimentales (UE). Las determinaciones evaluadas porcentaje incidencia malezas, (ton ha-1) diámetro ecuatorial polar cabeza (cm). Estos valores sometidos a un análisis varianza (ANOVA) y, cuando encontraron diferencias significativas entre los tratamientos, comparación medias mediante prueba Tukey al 5%. No registraron para (P>0,05). Se concluye que las especies vegetales utilizadas este estudio consorcio influyeron positivamente reducción maleza aumento pero no afectaron significativamente diámetros

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Assessment of mechanized sown cotton-based intercropping systems: Impact on yield, efficiency and profitability DOI Open Access

M. Saranya,

SP Sangeetha,

P. M. Shanmugam

et al.

Plant Science Today, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 11(sp4)

Published: Nov. 29, 2024

Cotton, a valuable cash crop from the Gossypium genus, significantly contributes to national economy. A primary challenge in cotton cultivation is high labor demand for sowing. As shortages grow, sowing machinery has emerged as viable alternative, decreasing expenses and operating duration. However, machine requires wider inter-row spacing, cotton's slow initial vegetative growth presents an opportunity incorporate suitable intercrops. This technique optimizes resource utilization offers potential supplementary income intercropping event of failure due natural disasters. study aims identify systems under mechanized conditions enhance yield, competitive indices, energy efficiency, economic viability, supporting sustainable farmer incomes. The experiment employed split-plot design with two main plots, five subplots, three replications. Results showed that was more profitable than manual sowing, reducing costs by 19.6% increasing net returns 22.7%, per-day return 22.6%. Among systems, + maize demonstrated superior performance, achieving higher cotton-equivalent yield (22.2%), land equivalent ratio (32.0%), area-time (21.0%), use efficiency (57.4%), productivity (63.5%), (29.6%) compared sole cotton. concluded improves energy, enhancing overall farm productivity.

Language: Английский

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