Influence of Sole and Intercropping System on Seed Yield and Quality in Soybean

Author: Gnyandev B., Umesh Hiremath, Shivakumar B. Bagli, Basave Gowda, Sunilkumar N.M. and Ningdalli Mallikarjun

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Abstract

Globally, cultivable land has decreased due to population increase and industrialization. Industrialization and globalization in agriculture and food supply endanger the future of humanity and environment. A huge amount of energy requires for production the synthetic of fertilizers and pesticides. Moreover, agrochemicals can cause environmental degradation and disruption and human health risks. Many scientists nowadays are getting worried about the environmental and health risks of industrialized agricultural practices, and they are reconsideration low-technology alternatives Sustainable agriculture aims to simulate nature as the pattern for designing agricultural systems an important principle for sustainable agriculture is to create and maintain diversity, integrating plants and animals into a diverse land scape. A sustainable agricultural approach is crop diversification using resource-efficient and lucrative cropping techniques. Intercropping is frequently used by smallholders in developing nations to grow crops with increased yield and value. Many intercropping studies have been conducted under experimental conditions, but few studies have been performed in farmers’ fields. On farm demonstration with diversified cropping system of soybean + redgram Vis-a-Vis farmers’ practice of sole soybean was conducted in farmer’s field for two years duringKharif2020-21 and 2021-22 in Bidar district, Karnataka to study the influence of sole and intercropping system on seed yield and quality in soybean. The treatments consisted of two factors, Factor-I included two varieties of soybean viz., a) V1: JS-335 and b) V2: DSb-21 and Factor-II included Two cropping system a) Intercrop (C1) and b) Sole crop (C2). The treatments were laid out in factorial RCBD and replicated thrice. The results revealed that significant difference was noticed between the two soybean varieties grown as sole crop on seed yield and quality parameters except for seedling vigour index, where as in second factor the comparison between sole and intercrop treatment didn’t differ significantly which was found to be on par with each other in almost all the parameters except for the yield although there was just slight difference between both the treatments which recorded 2.65 kg per plot and 21.47 q per ha in sole crop (C2) and 2.50 kg per plot and 20.27 q per ha in intercrop (C1) and the interaction between the two factors was found to be non significant.

Keywords

Soybean, redgram, intercrop and seed yield

Conclusion

From the findings of the experiment studied on influence of sole and intercropping system on seed yield and quality in soybean, it can be concluded that among the two varieties of soybean, the performance of V1: JS-335 was slightly better than V2: DSb-21 in seed yield and quality parameters and between sole crop and intercropping the soybean crop performed better as a sole crop but the performance of the crop was on par with redgram intercropped with soybean in 1:4 ratio in terms of the yield and quality parameters. It can be concluded opting for intercropping there will be effective utilization of land and water resource with minimum cost of cultivation and which yield more as compared to sole crop by harvesting two crops from the same piece of land.

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Gnyandev B., Umesh Hiremath, Shivakumar B. Bagli, Basave Gowda, Sunilkumar N.M. and Ningdalli Mallikarjun (2023). Influence of Sole and Intercropping System on Seed Yield and Quality in Soybean. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 15(10): 1310-1316.