Effect on Yield and Yield Components of Wheat under Poplar based Agroforestry System

Author: Pallavi Bhatt*, Salil K. Tewari, Meenakshi Bisht and Harshita Negi

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Abstract

The global community faces a dual challenge of fulfilling the nutritional requirements of rising population while still remaining environmentally and socially sustainable. Agroforestry being a low-input technology, has been found to improve food production in addition to maintain sustainability in developing countries like India. Therefore, the major challenge is to develop improved annual crop varieties that are well adapted to be grown in agroforestry systems at an ideal population density. The experiment was conducted to study growth and yield components of wheat under poplar based agroforestry and identify well adapted varieties. The research comprised of three factors, (1) two types of environments viz. open farming and under shade of poplar trees (2) eight wheat varieties and (3) three levels of plant population densities viz. high, medium and low. A split- split plot design was used to study the influence of these three factors on wheat growth parameters. A highly significant in

Keywords

Agroforestry, shade tolerance, yield components, Plant population density, Population stress, Varietal response.