| Autor: |
Bouet Alphonse, Keli Zagbahi Jules, Koné Brahima, Konan Kouassi Urbain, Konan Kouamé Firmin, Yao-Kouamé Albert |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Journal of Food and Nutrition Research. 9:251-257 |
| ISSN: |
2333-1119 |
| Popis: |
Crop performance evaluation in intercropping involving booth crops with different cropping cycle durations is still a concern for agronomic research while farmers already adopted this agro-system in spite of yield decreasing of one of the component. Agronomic trial involving rice-cassava intercropping with different densities of cassava planting was undertaken in western Cote d'Ivoire to determine most reliable parameters for performance index calculation comparing the conventional to new proposed methods. In a Fisher design, number of root/plant, cassava yield, cassava yield/2 rice cycles, 1000 rice grain weight, and rice grain yield were collected for exploring their reliability on global yield determination. Area Time Equivalent Ratio (ATER) and Crop Performance Ratio Time corrected were calculated as conventional method of performance index assessment while, average yield of cassava for two cycle of rice (ATER1) and the mean for both cropping cycles of rice (ATER2) were proposed as new methods. Except the variation of yield in single cropping, no significant effect of cassava planting density was recorded in global production and ATER value overlapped the threshold value of 1 in some extend. Only calculated yield were reliable for global production pointing out ATER1 as the most consistent method for rice-cassava intercropping performance determination. Rice grain yield and half of cassava yield calculated on basis of two rice cropping cycle were revealed as the most reliable parameters for ATER calculation highlighting such method viability for intercropping performance assessment when involving two crops with different cycle durations. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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