Green Global
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PERFORMANCE OF INTERCROPPING GRAIN MAIZE WITH TRITICALE AND GRASSPEA AS FORAGE CROPS (Pages : 34 - 37)

The experiment was conducted at the Regional Agricultural Research Station, Jamalpur during rabi 2007-2008 to find out forage production potentials and economic performance of intercropping grasspea and triticale with grain maize. The treatments were maize (75 cm x 25 cm) intercropped with triticale, maize (75 cm x 25 cm) intercropped with grasspea, sole maize, sole triticale and sole grasspea in the experiment. Maize was grown for grain while triticale and grasspea for forage production in all treatments. The results revealed that the highest green forage yield (14.89 t ha-1 ) was obtained from triticale intercropped with maize which was statistically similar to sole triticale (14.22 t ha-1 ). Grasspea produced the lowest green forage yield (4.86 t ha-1 ) when intercropped with maize that was similar to sole grasspea (5.47 t ha-1 ). Significantly the highest grain yield (7.20 t ha-1 ) was obtained from sole maize which was at par with maize intercropped with grasspea and the lowest (5.54 t ha-1 ) from maize intercropped with triticale. Sole maize and maize intercropped with grasspea gave maximum BCR values (3.06 and 3.03, respectively). Download