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Relative profitability of intercropping vegetable crops in autumn planted sugarcane

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A field experiment was conducted consecutively for three years at P.A.U. Sugarcane Research Station, Jalandhar to study the relative performance of different vegetable crops viz. pea, radish, palak and turnip as double row intercroped in the autumn planted sugarcane. The results revealed that intercropping of peas did not affect the cane yield over the pure cane. The intercropping of radish, turnip and palak decreased the cane yield by 5.1, 7.4 and 11.5% respectively over pure cane. The highest net profit of Rs. 26785/ha was obtained from cane + peas. This was closely followed by cane + radish (Rs. 26404) and cane + palak (Rs. 24494/ha) in comparison to Rs. 17848/ha with pure crop. The intercropping of sugarcane with turnip was found economically unviable.

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  1. Department of Plant Breeding, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana - 144 001, Punjab, India

    L. K. Saini, Makhan Singh & M. L. Kapur

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Saini, L.K., Singh, M. & Kapur, M.L. Relative profitability of intercropping vegetable crops in autumn planted sugarcane. Sugar Tech 5, 95–97 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02943775

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