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Intercropping Morphologically Different Cowpeas With Pearl Millet in a Short Season Environment in the Sahel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

Bonny R. Ntare
Bonny R. Ntare
Affiliation:
IITA/ICRISAT Cooperative Programme, ICRISAT Sahelian Centre BP 12404, Niamey, Niger
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Summary

The effects on yield of varying the planting date and planting pattern of morphologically different cowpea cultivars intercropped with pearl millet were studied in two field trials. The interaction between cowpea cultivars and planting date was highly significant. There was a sharp reduction in cowpea yields with late planting. Millet yields were reduced less when sown simultaneously with early cowpea cultivars than when sown with a late maturing local cultivar. Early maturing cowpea cultivars planted in closely spaced hills had less effect on millet yields than a late maturing cultivar sown in widely spaced hills. An appropriate cowpea cultivar for intercropping with peal millet would be one that was weakly competitive and that yielded both grain and fodder.

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Research Article
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Experimental Agriculture , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , January 1990 , pp. 41 - 47
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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