Performance of coconut based high density multispecies cropping system under East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh
| dc.contributor.author | Padma, E. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ramanandam, G. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ravindra Kumar, K. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Chalapathi Rao, N.B.V. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Maheswarappa, H.P. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-02-20T05:39:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-02-20T05:39:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A trial was conducted at Horticultural Research Station, Ambajipeta during 2008-12 with cocoa, banana, pineapple, elephant foot yam and Heliconia as intercrops in coconut. The mean data of four years revealed that nut yield recorded in coconut under cropping system was117.3 per palm, whereas under monocrop, it was 96.5 nuts per palm .With respect to intercrops, cocoa recorded yield of2.0 kg dry beans/tree, banana 22.7 kg/plant, pineapple 0.9 kg/plant, elephant foot yam yielded corm of weight 2.8 kg/plant and Heliconia 12 spikes/plant. With respect to biomass production, a total quantity of 34.5 tlha/year on fresh weight basis collected from the bio-system (7.6 tonnes fi·om coconut,15.0 tonnes from cocoa,6.0 tonnes fi·om banana, 3.6 tonnes from Pineapple, 1.3 tonnes fi·om elephant foot yam and 1.0 ton from heliconia) which was used for production ofvermicompost. The total quantity ofvermicompost obtained was 20.11 tlha/ yr with vermicompost recovery of 58%. There was an increase in the soil organic matter content from 0.99 % to 1.2 %, soil organic carbon content from 0.5% to 0.7%, nitrogen from 288 kglha to 344 kglha, phosphorus fi·om 20.5 kg/ha to 24.5 kglha and potassium from 123.76 kg/ha to 138.14 kglha with coconut based cropping system. The microbial population of bacteria, actinomycetes, trichoderma, phosphorus solubilising bacteria (PSB) count was high in the coconut based cropping system. The economic analysis revealed that the highest net returns were registered in coconut based cropping system compared to coconut monocrop. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | International Journal of Innovative Horticulture. 5(1):29-33, 2016 Original | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/6858 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | coconut | en_US |
| dc.subject | cropping system | en_US |
| dc.subject | intercrops | en_US |
| dc.subject | biomass | en_US |
| dc.subject | economics | en_US |
| dc.subject | yield | en_US |
| dc.title | Performance of coconut based high density multispecies cropping system under East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |