International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience (IJPAB)
Year : 2018, Volume : 6, Issue : 1
First page : (694) Last page : (700)
Article doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.5983

System Productivity and Economics of Transplanted and Direct Sown Pigeonpea at Different Cropping Geometry and Intercropping Systems

Sujatha H. T.* and Babalad H. B.
Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, UAS, Dharwad-580005, Karnataka
*Corresponding Author E-mail: sujathaagri.1060@gmail.com
Received: 9.11.2017  |  Revised: 16.12.2017   |  Accepted: 20.12.2017  

 ABSTRACT

A field experiment was conducted to study the “System productivity and economics of transplanted and direct sown pigeonpea at different cropping geometry and intercropping systems’’ at MARS, UAS, Dharwad, Karnataka on medium deep black soil under rainfed condition during 2016. The experiment was laidout using RCBD with twelve treatment combinations replicated thrice. The treatments consisted of transplanted pigeonpea at 120 cm x 60 cm planting geometry, direct sown pigeonpea at 120 cm x 60 cm and 90 cm x 30 cm planting geometries, intercropped with soybean, greengram and blackgram at 1:2 row proportion and compared with sole treatments of transplanted and direct sown pigeonpea for their system productivity and profitability.  Significantly higher grain (2,662 kg ha-1) and stalk + husk yield (9,836 kg ha-1) of pigeonpea was recorded with sole transplanted pigeonpea at a planting geometry of 120 cm × 60 cm spacing as compared to yield of pigeonpea in intercropping systems and sole direct sown and transplanted pigeonpea treatments except transplanted pigeonpea at 120 cm × 60 cm geometry with greengram (2,550 kg ha-1 and 9,580 kg ha-1, respectively) and soybean (2,537 kg ha-1 and 9,340 kg ha-1, respectively) intercropping systems which were on par with each other. Transplanted pigeonpea at 120 cm × 60 cm geometry with blackgram intercropping system produced significantly higher pigeopea equivalent yield (3,987 kg ha-1) and net returns (Rs. 1,38,476 ha-1) as compared to sole transplanted pigeonpea (120 cm × 60 cm) and direct sown sole pigeonpea as well as intercropping systems at 120 cm × 60 cm and 90 cm × 30 cm geometry. The next best systems which recorded significantly higher system productivity and net returns were transplanted pigeonpea at 120 cm × 60 cm geometry with soybean (3,861 kg ha-1 and Rs. 1,31,105 ha-1, respectively) and greengram (3,833 kg ha-1 and Rs. 1,29,650 ha-1, respectively) intercropping.

Key words: Pigeonpea, Transplanting, Direct sowing, Productivity, Net returns

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Cite this article: Sujatha, H.T. and Babalad, H.B., System Productivity and Economics of Transplanted and Direct Sown Pigeonpea at Different Cropping Geometry and Intercropping Systems, Int. J. Pure App. Biosci.6(1): 694-700 (2018). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.5983