Performance of sorghum under sorghum legume intercropping system

Abstract

The experiment was carried out during kharif, 2019-20 at All India Co-ordinated Research Project on Sorghum, Chamarajanagar District, Karnataka, to study the performance of sorghum under sorghum legume intercropping system. The experiment consists of fourteen treatment combination with different legumes viz., Redgram, Greengram, Blackgram, Cowpea and Field bean in different row proportion of 2:1, 4:1 and 4:2, laidout in Randomized Block Design and replicated thrice. Results of the experiment revealed that treatment combination of sorghum + blackgram (4:2) recorded taller plants (295cm), Increase in leaf area (4760.59cm2), Stem diameter (15.24mm), Earhead length (13.83cm), Ear head width (5.50cm), Earhead weight (61.50g), Sorghum yield (1593kg/ha) and dry fodder yield (13.51t/ha). Combination of sorghum+ blackgram (4:2) is found better under different sorghum+ legume intercropping systems.