Evaluation of yield and Advantage intercropping of millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) with beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and vetch (Vicia villosa L.) under regular and magnetic irrigation

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1 Member of the Faculty of Agriculture, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Eco-physiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran.

3 Department of Plant Eco physiology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

Abstract

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of magnetic water and mixed cultivation pattern of millet, bean and forage vetch on species yield.This study was conducted in the 2019 and 2020 cropping years. The experiment was performed based on a randomized complete block design with three replications and 14 treatments. LER, AYL RVT IA indices were used to evaluate intercropping.The effect of year was significant for millet grain yield at a probability level of one percent and millet biomass at a probability level of five percent. The effect of magnetic water increased the studied traits in three plants. The main effect of culture for all studied traits was significant at the level of 1% probability. The interaction of year in cultivation was significant only for the number of leaves per millet plant at 5% , the interaction effect of irrigation in cultivation was significant for millet grain yield, millet biomass, vetch forage yield and bean grain yield at 1% and millet chlorophyll index trait at 5% level. Intercropping of millet with beans and millet with vetch has increased the yield of plants and is more economical. Mixed culture of millet-bean and millet-vetch with 2:1 and 4:1 ratio had better performance than pure culture, The highest LER index was related to millet-vetch intercropping with a ratio of 4:1. the highest RVT index was associated with the cultivation of millet-bean mixture with a ratio of 2:1.Therefore, the yield of plants in intercropping increased and they were better than a single crop.

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JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION
Volume 32, Issue 3
June 2022
Pages 63-78

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