National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
An experiment was conducted to assess the effect of different intercrops like maize, pea, strawberry, cabbage, red clover, French bean, oats and maize on apple production cv Red Delicious under Kashmir conditions. The results obtained revealed significant improvement in apple trees intercropped with legumes followed by control and non-legume type crops. Flowering occurred earlier in pea (44.44 days from reference date), followed by red clover (44.32) and French bean (48.32). Per cent fruit set and fruit maturity (DAFB to harvest) occurred earlier in apple trees intercropped with pea (12.91%, 179.50), red clover (11.88%, 182.10) and French bean (10.75%, 184.50) than control (9.70%, 185.57) and heavy feeder crops like maize (6.12%, 187.22), oats (6.61%, 186.07), strawberry (8.45%, 184.79) and cabbage (8.02%, 184.21). Fruit yield (37.51 kg/tree), fruit weight (155.72g), fruit volume (165.56 cm3) and leaf nutrient status, N P, K, Ca and Mg were found to be highest in trees intercropped with legumes than with the non –legume type of crops. The impact of intercrops on relative economic yield of apple (system equivalent yield) revealed that the apple trees intercropped with pea had better benefit: cost ratio (1.71) followed by cabbage (1.41), red clover (1.40) and French bean (1.39) than clean cultivation (1.34).
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