| Journal: | Acta scientiarum. Agronomy |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000459813 |
| ISSN: | 1679-9275 |
| Authors: | Chaves, Aridênia Peixoto1 Bezerra-Neto, Francisco1 Lima, Jailma Suerda Silva1 Silva, Josimar Nogueora2 Santos, Elizangela Cabral1 Nunes, Renato Leandro Costa3 Lino, Vitor Abel da Silva1 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Arido, Departamento de Ciencia Agronomicas e Florestais, Mossoro, Rio Grande do Norte. Brasil 2Secretaria de Agricultura, Belem do Brejo do Cruz, Paraiba. Brasil 3Instituto Federal do Ceara, Limoeiro do Norte, Ceara. Brasil |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Volumen: | 44 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Experimental, analítico |
| English abstract | One of the great challenges of the beet and cowpea cultivation in crop association is to maintain their productivity as that of their sole counterparts in semi-arid environment. In this context, the objective of this work is to assess whether there is bio-agroeconomic return in associations of beet-cowpea by the optimization of population densities and spatial arrangements of the component crops. Experiments were performed in randomised complete block designs with treatments arranged in a 4 × 3 factorial scheme, with four replications. The first factor was the population densities of cowpea (100, 80, 60, and 40% of the recommended population in single crop - RPSC) in association with beet, and the second factor was the spatial arrangements (2:2, 3:3, and 4:4), formed by beet (B) rows alternating with cowpea (C) rows. The competition and agronomic indices evaluated were aggressiveness, competitive ratio, land equivalent ratio, actual yield loss, intercropping advantage and the productive efficiency index. The economic indicators evaluated were gross income, net income, rate of return and profit margin. High agro-economic efficiency can be obtained in the cultivation of beet and cowpea intercropping when well-managing the factors of production, population densities and spatial arrangement of the component crops. The greatest agro-economic return of the cowpea and beet intercropping was obtained in the population densities of 40 and 100% of RPSC for cowpea and beet, respectively. The 2:2 spatial arrangement between beet and cowpea crops was the one with the best productive performance and higher indicators of economic return. The cowpea was the dominant crop while the beet was dominated |
| Disciplines: | Agrociencias |
| Keyword: | Fitotecnia, Asociación de cultivos, Densidad espacial, Remolacha azucarera, Caupí, Beta vulgaris, Vigna unguiculata |
| Keyword: | Crop husbandry, Intercrops, Cowpea, Beet, Beta vulgaris, Vigna unguiculata, Spatial density |
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