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Mixed Cropping in Northern Nigeria. III. Mixtures of Cereals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

E. F. I. Baker
E. F. I. Baker
Affiliation:
Department of Agronomy, Institute for Agricultural Research, Ahmadu Bello University, Samaru, Nigeria
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Summary

Alternate row mixtures of millet, maize and sorghum were compared with equivalent areas of sole crops. Yield of mixtures were rarely reduced but there was a gain when components differed by a certain margin in height or age at maturity, or both. Approximately 75% of variation in yield gain from mixing was attributable to these two factors. Subsistence farmers who mix a fast-growing early-maturing cereal with a slower-growing, later-maturing one thus reduce interference between neighbouring plants during the reproductive phase of growth, and obtain grain harvest spread in time and heavier than from equivalent areas of the component sole crops.

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Experimental Agriculture , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , January 1979 , pp. 41 - 48
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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