Sole and intercropping Sunflower-Mungbean for spring cultivation in Peshawar

• Published in: Pure and applied biology Vol. 3; no. 4; pp. 121 - 131
• Main Author: Khan, Murad Ali
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Quetta International Society of Pure and Applied Biology 01.12.2014
• Subjects: Agricultural practices; Agricultural production; Beans; Climate change; Colleges & universities; Competition; Cropping systems; Crops; Experiments; Ground cover; Helianthus; Helianthus annuus; Intercropping; Seeds; Soil fertility; Sole cropping; Spring; Wheat; Pakistan
• ISSN: 2304-2478; 2304-2478
• DOI: 10.19045/bspab.2014.34001

Yield of some crops performs better in the intercropping than sole cropping system. Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) canopy is fragile providing a lot of ground cover, hence, therefore, has a great potential to intercrop with a short stature and/or duration crop making it comparable for the better net return in a cropping system. Field experiment was, therefore, expressly conducted to study the mungbean in sunflower intercropped on different sowing dates (same sowing date with sunflower, one, two and three weeks delay in sowing from the main sunflower) and rows in combinations (1:1 and 1:2) sunflower-mungbean as intercrop and sole crop of each species for to study yield and yield traits during spring 2011 and 2012 crop growth seasons. The study suggested that mungbean can expectantly be intercropped in sunflower hybrid to make it competitive with any other crop of the cropping system in region subject to working on an appropriate planting geometry for sunflower and potential variety of the sunflower to be intercropped.