Advantages

ADVANTAGES

  • There are many advantages due to intercropping a legume and non-legume crop.
  • This system helps in economizing the fertiliser use, improves the forage quality and at times may even increase the biomass production. This is illustrated through the following example.

System (Kg/ha)

Fertiliser used (Kg/ha)

Forage yield (t/ha)

Crude Protein

N

P2O5

Green

Dry

Sorghum (pure crop)

120

50

49.0

10.18

680

Sorghum + Cowpea

70

55

49.3

10.10

1024


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