Productivity Of Coco Am! Vegetable Cowpea Intercrops As Influenced By Spatial Arrangement And Cowpea Growth Habits
ABSTRACT
Two years field experiments laid out in randomized complete block design were conducted during 2006 and 2007 wet seasons at Michael Okpara University of Agriculture. Umudike, in the lowland humid forest zone of south-eastern Nigeria to investigate the productivity of cocoyarnlvegetable cowpea intcrcropping as influenced by spatial arrangement and cowpea growth habit. Cocoyarn and vegetable cowpea were each planted in monoculture and intercropped between and within rows. The results indicated that intercropping and within row spatial arrangement increased cocoyam plant height relative to its sole crop. Corm yields obtained from cocoyam-intercroppcd within the row of climbing Akidienu were significantly higher than the yields when combined within erect IT86F-204- I .The erect IT86F-204- I gave higher fresh pod yield under sole cropping while the climbing Akidienu gave higher fresh pod yield when intercropped within cocovam plants. Intereropping did not depress cowpea pod yield except where cocoyam was combined between erect IT86F- 204-1 in 2006. Assessment of the productivity of the mixtures using LER. ATER and monetary returns showed yield advantages. The highest for LER (2.9). ATER (2.5) and net monetary returns (#491 ,550) (using mean of two years) was obtained when cocoyam was intercropped within the climbing Akidienu vegetable cowpea rows.
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CHUKWUEKEZIE, C (2021). Productivity Of Coco Am! Vegetable Cowpea Intercrops As Influenced By Spatial Arrangement And Cowpea Growth Habits. Repository.mouau.edu.ng: Retrieved Apr 29, 2024, from https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/productivity-of-coco-am-vegetable-cowpea-intercrops-as-influenced-by-spatial-arrangement-and-cowpea-growth-habits-7-2
CHUKWUNYERE, CHUKWUEKEZIE. "Productivity Of Coco Am! Vegetable Cowpea Intercrops As Influenced By Spatial Arrangement And Cowpea Growth Habits" Repository.mouau.edu.ng. Repository.mouau.edu.ng, 11 Jun. 2021, https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/productivity-of-coco-am-vegetable-cowpea-intercrops-as-influenced-by-spatial-arrangement-and-cowpea-growth-habits-7-2. Accessed 29 Apr. 2024.
CHUKWUNYERE, CHUKWUEKEZIE. "Productivity Of Coco Am! Vegetable Cowpea Intercrops As Influenced By Spatial Arrangement And Cowpea Growth Habits". Repository.mouau.edu.ng, Repository.mouau.edu.ng, 11 Jun. 2021. Web. 29 Apr. 2024. < https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/productivity-of-coco-am-vegetable-cowpea-intercrops-as-influenced-by-spatial-arrangement-and-cowpea-growth-habits-7-2 >.
CHUKWUNYERE, CHUKWUEKEZIE. "Productivity Of Coco Am! Vegetable Cowpea Intercrops As Influenced By Spatial Arrangement And Cowpea Growth Habits" Repository.mouau.edu.ng (2021). Accessed 29 Apr. 2024. https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/productivity-of-coco-am-vegetable-cowpea-intercrops-as-influenced-by-spatial-arrangement-and-cowpea-growth-habits-7-2