Abstract
An experiment was conducted to find out the effect of different intercroppings on growth and yield of banana (Musa paradisiacal L.) cv. Grand Naine at Soil and Water Management Research Farm, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, during 2009–10. The growth parameters, viz. plant height, girth of pseudostem, number of leaves and leaf area of banana reduced due to intercropping 3 and 5 months after planting. However, banana intercropped with onion, garlic and cauliflower showed similar growth to that of sole banana. The days required to inflorescence emergence and harvesting did not influence significantly due to various treatments. The yield and yield attributes also affected due to imposition of intercrops and reduction were increased under cauliflower. However, intercropping remain non-significant for yield attributes, viz. number of hands/bunch, average weight of fingers, number of fingers/bunch, and length and girth of fingers. However, banana + garlic (A2) gave higher yield-attributing characters. Among intercrops, cauliflower caused severe reduction in banana yield under all planting patterns.
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Claims 9
Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping reduced banana height, pseudostem girth and leaf number at 3 and 5 months.
- Taxon
- bananae0
- Treatment
- intercroppinge0
- Outcome
- plant height, girth of pseudostem, number of leavese0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Qualifier
- 3 and 5 months after plantinge0
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Verbatim
e0“plant height, girth of pseudostem, number of leaves and leaf area of banana reduced due to intercropping 3 and 5 months after planting”
Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping reduced banana leaf area at 3 and 5 months.
- Taxon
- bananae0
- Treatment
- intercroppinge0
- Outcome
- leaf areae0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Qualifier
- 3 and 5 months after plantinge0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“plant height, girth of pseudostem, number of leaves and leaf area of banana reduced due to intercropping 3 and 5 months after planting”
Claim · model-written summary
Banana intercropped with onion had growth similar to sole banana.
Verbatim
e0“banana intercropped with onion, garlic and cauliflower showed similar growth to that of sole banana”
Claim · model-written summary
Banana intercropped with garlic had growth similar to sole banana.
Verbatim
e0“banana intercropped with onion, garlic and cauliflower showed similar growth to that of sole banana”
Claim · model-written summary
Banana intercropped with cauliflower had growth similar to sole banana.
Verbatim
e0“banana intercropped with onion, garlic and cauliflower showed similar growth to that of sole banana”
Claim · model-written summary
Intercrop treatments did not significantly affect time to inflorescence emergence or harvest.
- Taxon
- bananat0
- Treatment
- various treatmentse0
- Outcome
- days required to inflorescence emergence and harvestinge0
- Direction
- did not influence significantlye0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“The days required to inflorescence emergence and harvesting did not influence significantly due to various treatments.”
t0“banana”
Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping did not significantly affect the listed bunch and finger yield attributes.
- Taxon
- bananat0
- Treatment
- intercroppinge0
- Outcome
- number of hands/bunch, average weight of fingers, number of fingers/bunche0
- Direction
- non-significante0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“intercropping remain non-significant for yield attributes, viz. number of hands/bunch, average weight of fingers, number of fingers/bunch, and length and girth of fingers”
t0“banana”
Claim · model-written summary
Banana with garlic gave higher yield-attributing characters.
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Verbatim
e0“banana + garlic (A2) gave higher yield-attributing characters”
Claim · model-written summary
Cauliflower intercropping severely reduced banana yield under all planting patterns.
- Taxon
- bananae0
- Treatment
- cauliflowere0
- Outcome
- banana yielde0
- Direction
- severe reductione0
- Qualifier
- all planting patternse0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“cauliflower caused severe reduction in banana yield under all planting patterns”
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