Strip intercropping productivity of modern maize hybrid varieties with pulse crops on a dryland

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10.2991/icpsuas-17.2018.27How to use a DOI?

Keywords

adaptation, climate change, crop failure, diversity, intercropping, monocrop

Abstract

Improving crop diversity on a piece of land, such as by intercropping, is one of adaptation strategies to climate change in dryland areas. The aim of the present study was to estimate strip intercropping productivity, that was expressed as Land Equivalent Ratio (LER), of maize and pulse crops on a dryland. Two modern maize hybrid varieties, NK212 (non-premium) and NK7328 (premium), and two pulse crops, groundnut (Hypoma-1) and mungbean (Vima-1) were grown both as monoculture and intercropping. The study was conducted on an Entisol sandy soil in dryland area of Gumantar village, North Lombok (8.253654 S, 116.285695 E). The size of each treatment plot was 8.4 x 5m with east-west orientation. Maize crops were planted as double-rows with 35 x 20cm spacing within the row and 70cm between the double rows with one seed per hole. Groundnut and mungbean crops were planted at 20 x 20cm with one seed per hole. From these spacings, 70% of land portion in strip intercropping was for maize and the other 30% was for either groundnut or mungbean. Each treatment was replicated three times. The results showed that the premium variety of maize NK7328 out yielded NK212, both in monocrop and strip intercropping with mungbean and groundnut. All LER values for the intercropping were higher than 1.0, being the highest (1.25) was from NK212-mungbean strip intercropping. These results indicate that strip intercropping of maize-pulse crops has a productivity advantage over the monoculture on a dryland. In addition to higher in productivity, strip intercropping can also spread the risk of crop failure in dryland areas during the recent high variability in climate.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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