Title: Effect of conservation tillage on growth, productionand energetics of pigeonpea based intercropping system under rainfed area
Abstract:A field study was conducted at Agronomy farm,
Department of Agronomy, Dr. Panjabrao
Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola
(Maharashtra) during kharif season of 2012-
13 to find out the energy efficien...A field study was conducted at Agronomy farm,
Department of Agronomy, Dr. Panjabrao
Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola
(Maharashtra) during kharif season of 2012-
13 to find out the energy efficient cropping
system having higher system productivity and
more resource use efficient. The experiment
was laid out in factorial randomized block
design with four replication consisting of two
tillage practices (conventional tillage and
minimum tillage) and four cropping
systems[Sole pigeonpea, Pigeonpea + soybean
(1:2), Pigeonpea + Sunnhemp (1:2) and
Pigeonpea+ soybean (1:5)]. Highest plant
height and root length was found in sole
pigeonpea compared with intercropping
system. Higher pigeonpea grain yield(18.5q/
ha)was recorded under sole pigeonpea,being
on par with pigeonpea +sunhemp (1:2)
whereas,under intercropping system higher
yield was recorded in pigeonpea + soybean
(1:5).Flower to pod conversion percentage
(42.3%), PEY (26.2q/ha), system productivity
(14.6kg/ha), rainfall use efficiency (4.43kg/ha/
mm), output energy (1, 37,108 MJ/ha) and
energy use efficiency (0.41) were found
maximum under pigeonpea + soybean (1:2)
system. Output energy (1, 33,976 MJ/ha),
output energy ratio (23.88), energy use
efficiency (0.36) and energy balance (1, 28,313
MJ/ha) were found maximum in minimum
tillage as compared to conventional tillage.Read More
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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