Economic analysis of cucumber and lettuce intercropping under greenhouse in the winter-spring

Rezende, Bráulio Luciano Alves; Filho, Arthur Bernardes Cecílio; Júnior, Aurélio Paes Barros; Porto, Diego R Queirós; Martins, Maria Isabel Mello

doi:10.1590/s0001-37652011000200028

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“…However, later transplants led to significantly reduced lettuce weight; when lettuce was transplanted 30 d after the tomato plants, the lettuce plants were etiolated and had no market value. Similar results were observed by Rezende et al (2011), who evaluated the effect of the transplant time of lettuce intercropped with cucumber. The authors observed that the intercrop was only feasible when the lettuce was transplanted on the same day as the cucumber as late lettuce transplanting caused a strong decrease in accumulated weight and commercial characteristics.…”

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Agronomic and Economic Feasibility of Tomato and Lettuce Intercropping in a Soilless System as a Function of the Electrical Conductivity of the Nutrient Solution

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Urrestarazu²,

Filho³

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An intercrop is studied here as a new way of farming in soilless systems within a protected environment. To estimate the efficiency of intercropping in this cultivation system, an experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of the electrical conductivity (EC) of the nutrient solution (2.0, 2.5, and 3.0 dS·m−1) on lettuce and tomato plants and on the agronomic and economic feasibility of the intercrop compared with monoculture. The results indicated that a moderate increase in EC from 2.0 to 3.0 dS·m−1 did not exert any important effect on tomato plant production or quality but did cause a decrease in lettuce yield in both the first and second crops. Intercropping was only feasible for lettuce when the tomato and lettuce plants were transplanted on the same day. The highest tomato (G class) and lettuce yields were achieved at an EC of 2.5 dS·m−1; this condition resulted in the highest intercrop profitability (0.53 €·m−2 more) when compared with tomato monoculture.

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“…However, few studies have been conducted with vegetables in protected environments. Cecílio Filho et al ( , 2013, Rezende et al (2011), and Tringovska et al (2015) tested the agronomic and economic feasibility of intercropping tomato and lettuce and intercropping cucumber and lettuce in protected cultivation.…”

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Agronomic and Economic Feasibility of Tomato and Lettuce Intercropping in a Soilless System as a Function of the Electrical Conductivity of the Nutrient Solution

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Urrestarazu²,

Filho³

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“…54542.00 for single season. Rezende et al (2011) and Sreedhara et al (2013) had also similar observations regarding expenditure incurred on fixed component, thus showing slow response of growers for adoption of this technology. However, with the involvement of Government in boosting this technology financially, the initial capital investment with respect to structure came down to Rs.…”

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Economic analysis of protected cultivation of bell Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) in response to different PGRs under south Gujarat conditions

Bharti

Kumar

Vibhuti

2017

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ABSRACTEconomic analysis of protected cultivation of bell pepper in response to various PGRs during rabi, 2015. Bell pepper was exposed to ten different treatments comprising of three levels of each PGR (NAA at 20, 40 and 60 ppm; GA 3 at 25, 50 and 75 ppm and 2,4-D at 2.5, 5 and 7.5 ppm).The economic analysis of production system of bell pepper under NVPH displayed total cost of cultivation ranging from Rs. 152869 to 155092 invariably dependent on cost of PGRs and packing of bell pepper produce. Application of NAA at the rate of 20 ppm was observed as highly remunerative treatment exhibiting BCR of 1.22 with net realization of Rs. 188850.00, which can further be increased upto a level of Rs. 224302 and Rs. 229756 by availing 65 and 75% subsidy being imparted by government of Gujarat.

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“…To obtain good results from intercropping, various production factors that have already been properly studied in monocultures need to be reevaluated. Even in cucumber and lettuce intercropping, which has proven agroeconomic viability (REZENDE et al, 2011), simply changing the cultivar (PORTO et al, 2011;CECÍLIO FILHO et al, 2015) or cropping season (CECÍLIO FILHO et al, 2011) can affect overall viability, including leading to total failure (REZENDE et al, 2010).…”

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Yield of Intercropped Lettuce and Cucumber as a Function of Population Density and Cropping Season

2019

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The possibility of increasing vegetable production per unit area is one of the advantages of the intercropping system. However, there is a lack of information about the effect of climatic factors and the management of different species on the viability of this production system. To this end, four experiments were carried out to evaluate the yield of intercropped lettuce and cucumber as a function of cropping season, cucumber population density, and lettuce transplanting time. Each experiment was conducted in a randomized block design with nine treatments arranged in a 2 x 4 + 1 factorial scheme, corresponding to two cropping systems (intercropping and monoculture), four transplanting times of 'Lucy Brown' lettuce (0, 10, 20, and 30 days after cucumber transplanting), and 'Hokushin' cucumber monoculture. The experiments were carried out in two seasons (August to November and February to May) and with two cucumber population densities (1.1 and 2.2 plants m-2). Total and commercial cucumber yields were not influenced by the presence of lettuce. However, regardless of cropping season, the presence of cucumber affected lettuce yield, with later transplanting corresponding to greater negative impact. Lettuce intercropped with cucumber at a density of 2.2 plants m-2 and grown from February to May did not reach commercial quality. The greatest efficiency of lettuce and cucumber intercropping was obtained by transplanting the two species on the same day in August, with cucumber at a density of 1.1 plants m-2.

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Economic analysis of cucumber and lettuce intercropping under greenhouse in the winter-spring

Cited by 17 publications

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Agronomic and Economic Feasibility of Tomato and Lettuce Intercropping in a Soilless System as a Function of the Electrical Conductivity of the Nutrient Solution

Agronomic and Economic Feasibility of Tomato and Lettuce Intercropping in a Soilless System as a Function of the Electrical Conductivity of the Nutrient Solution

Economic analysis of protected cultivation of bell Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) in response to different PGRs under south Gujarat conditions

Yield of Intercropped Lettuce and Cucumber as a Function of Population Density and Cropping Season

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