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Yield, Quality, Land Equivalent Ratio, and Economic viability of Intercropping Combinations of Summer Squash, Faba Bean and Strawberry

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Horticulture (Vegetable, Pomology and Ornamentals)

Abstract

Intercropping system has been reported to enhance quality and yield obtained per unit area.Therefore,the current study was carried out to assess the impact of intercropping of Zucchini or broad beans with strawberry and also, intercropping (IC) Zucchini with broad beans on growth, quality, yield and the economic viability of the studied crops in the mixed IC, compared to the mono-cropping of these crops. A field experiment was carried out during 2017- 2018 and 2018-2019 . According to results of this study, intercropping of strawberry with broad beans achieved significantly the highest levels of anthocyanin content in strawberry fruits compared to the other treatments in both seasons. Maximum yield of strawberry crop was obtained from sole cropping as well as that obtained from strawberry-broad beans intercropping. Intercropping of Zucchini with broad beans resulted in significantly higher yields of both crops as compared with their sole cropping. Yield of broad bean and Zucchini increased by 18.1% and 26.9 % respectively as compared with their sole cropping which indicate yielding efficiency enhancement as a result of intercropping. Land equivalent ratio (LER) of strawberry- Zucchini intercropping was, on average, 1.2 for both years. Whereas, with regard to strawberry-broad beans intercropping was, on average for1.3 for both years, while it was 2.45 when Intercropping Zucchini with broad bean. Intercropping Zucchini with broad bean gave the highest relative yield for both of them compared with the other treatments and also, the highest monetary advantage index (MAI).

DOI

10.21608/ajas.2022.120373.1093

Keywords

main crop, secondary crop, yield components, intercropping system

Authors

First Name

Shreen yacoub attallah

Last Name

Attallah

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Affiliation

Vegetables Department - Faculty of Agriculture - Assiut University

Email

shrnmgdy@yahoo.com

City

Assuit

Orcid

0000-0001-9206-4762

First Name

Ibtesam

Last Name

Badawy

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Department of Pomology- Faculty of Agriculture - Assiut University

Email

efatheybadawy@gmail.com

City

Assiut

Orcid

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First Name

Reham

Last Name

Abdalla

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-

Affiliation

Vegetables Department - Faculty of Agriculture - Assiut University

Email

reham.abdalla@gmail.com

City

Assuit

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Volume

53

Article Issue

1

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33204

Issue Date

2022-03-01

Receive Date

2022-02-07

Publish Date

2022-03-01

Page Start

74

Page End

89

Print ISSN

1110-0486

Online ISSN

2356-9840

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/article_231509.html

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62

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Publication Title

Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/

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Yield, Quality, Land Equivalent Ratio, and Economic viability of Intercropping Combinations of Summer Squash, Faba Bean and Strawberry

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22 Jan 2023