Enhancing the land use efficiency of low-land rice (Oryza sativa L.)-Grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.) additive series relay intercropping in North-Western Ethiopia: A farmer's indigenous knowledge.

ABSTRACT: In Ethiopia, the facts of farmers' indigenous knowledge-based cropping systems have rarely been investigated through research. A field experiment was conducted during 2021/2022 main cropping season at Fogera Plain with the objective of examining the effect of additive series relay intercropping of grass pea with lowland rice on the grain yield of the component crops and the production efficiency of the cropping system. The experiment consisted of a factorial combination of four seed proportions of grass pea (SPGP) (25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% of the recommended seed rate of sole grass pea) relay intercropped with full seed rates of rice in four rice: grass pea spatial arrangements (SA) (1:1, 2:1, 3:1, and their mixed relay intercropping system). The treatments were arranged in a randomised com

SUBMITTER: Assefa E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10325089 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature