Claim · model-written summary
Intercropping caused a 20% yield decrease in water melon.
- Taxon
- water melon
Citrullus lanatuse2 - Treatment
- Intercroppinge2
- Outcome
- yielde2
- Direction
- decreasee2
- Value
- 20%e2
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e2“Intercropping did not significantly influence bunch yield of plantain but it caused a 2–7 and 20% yield decrease in egusi melon and water melon respectively”
Title
Productivity of Plantain (MusaAAB)-Melon Mixtures in South Western Nigeria
M. A. Jolaoso; I. M. Ojeifo; I. O.O. Aiyelaagbe Biological Agriculture & Horticulture 1996. doi:10.1080/01448765.1996.9754791
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Intercropping with 5000 and 6666 melon plants ha−1 significantly decreased plantain leaf area.
- Intervention effect Intercropping did not significantly influence plantain bunch yield.
- Intervention effect Intercropping caused a 2–7% yield decrease in egusi melon.
- Observation Land Equivalent Ratios of the plantain-melon intercropped plots were 1.67, 1.69 and 1.74.
- Observation Cash advantage of plantain intercropped with 3333, 5000 and 6666 melon plants ha−1 was N61400, N65700 and N72100 ha−1.
- Recommendation The authors propose the plantain-melon mixture as an alternative sustainable mixture to existing plantain-based systems.