Studies on Agro Techniques to Improve the Productivity and Profitability of 	Samai +Redgram Intercropping System under Rainfed Conditions

Sivagamy, K.; Ananthi, K.; Kannan, P.; Vijayakumar, M.; Sharmili, K.; Rajesh, M.; Nirmalakumari, A.; Parasuraman, P.

doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2020.906.484

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“…Little millet grown along with small onion and radish recorded higher grain equivalent yield followed by intercropping of little millet with pulses (Sharmili and Manoharan) [69]. Sharmili and Yasodha [71] and Sivagamy et al [72] presented that higher grain (652 kg/ha) and straw yields (1676 kg/ha) were recorded with little millet + pigeonpea at 8:2 ratio followed by sequential crop of blackgram and it was at par with little millet + pigeonpea followed by horsegram sequence.…”

Section: Intercropping In Little Milletmentioning

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Intercropping Options for Sustainable Minor Millet Production: A Review

Dhaka,

Singh

et al. 2023

IJECC

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High population pressure, climate change, stagnant crop productivity, changing food habit and declining natural resources compelled us to go for climate resilient resource conservation technologies to bring sustainability in our crop production. Crop diversification by replacing high input requiring cereals with “nutri- cereals” minor millets in our crop rotations and by following intercropping of minor millets with pulses or oilseeds may be economically profitable, environmentally safe and socially acceptable approach to ensure food and nutritional security of the burgeoning population. This is high time to include millets in our daily diets but millet availability in sufficient amount is big issue. Millets are crops of rainfed and dryland resource poor areas and moreover under the threat of global warming and changed climatic scenario sole planting of millets generally gives less economic returns. So, there is an urgent need for incorporation of the pulses/oilseeds as intercrop in millets production system to enhance the production to feed the increasing population on sustained basis besides restoring the soil nutritional status and to overcome the environmental stress. But performance of intercropping system depends on proper selections of suitable intercrop, appropriate row ratio combination and proper input management. Very limited research work has been conducted on intercropping in millets so far but noteworthy information was recorded by the researchers, which has been reviewed through a sincere effort here to give critical view about intercropping in minor millets for agricultural sustainability to the farmers, researchers and consumers.

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Intercropping Options for Sustainable Minor Millet Production: A Review

Dhaka,

Singh

et al. 2023

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“…Little millet is highly tolerant to extreme soil and climatic conditions it can withstand under both drought and waterlogging. This crop is well known in Tamil Nadu and grown quite extensively in several parts of the country and this crop is strongly associated with tribal agriculture [2]. Small farmers with limited land, water, and financial resources have found that the monocropping system has not been able to meet their diverse needs.…”

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Evaluating Little Millet (Panicum sumatrense L.) Based Intercropping System on Growth, Yield and Nutrient Status of Soil under Rainfed Condition

Vivekavadhani,

Mohanapriya,

Sharmili

et al. 2024

IJECC

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Aims: To determine the suitable component crop and its row pattern for enhancing growth and yield of little millet under intercropping system. Study Design: Randomized complete Block Design (RBD). Place and Duration of Study: The field experiment was carried out during the rabi season from October 2023 – January 2024 at Instructional north farm in Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Methodology: This field experiment consists of 3 replications with eleven treatments viz., T1 – Little millet sole crop, T2 – Little millet + black gram (4:1), T3 – Little millet + black gram (6:1), T4 – Little millet + green gram (4:1), T5 – Little millet + green gram (6:1), T6 – Little millet + redgram (4:1), T7 – Little millet + redgram (6:1), T8 – Little millet + cowpea (4:1), T9 – Little millet + cowpea (6:1), T10 – Little millet + bengal gram (4:1), T11 – Little millet + bengal gram (6:1). Results: The results of the experiment showed that T2 little millet + black gram (4:1) recorded the higher growth parameters like plant height (127.6 and 133.6 cm at 60 DAS and at harvest stage) and LAI of 5.23 and 4.84 at 60 DAS and at harvest stage, respectively and also produced higher yield parameters like no.of tillers plant-1 (9) and no.of productive tillers (8) with higher grain and stover yield of 1326 and 4109 kg ha-1 and it is statistically parallel with T4 little millet + green gram (4:1). And also, nutrient uptake was highest (N – 40.8, P – 5.7 and K – 33.5 kg ha-1) in little millet + black gram (6:1). Regarding the post harvest soil fertility status, little millet + cowpea (4:1) registered the highest available NPK (339, 47.6 and 197 kg ha-1). Therefore, intercropping of black gram or green gram with little millet under rainfed condition would be the ideal recommendation.

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Studies on Agro Techniques to Improve the Productivity and Profitability of Samai +Redgram Intercropping System under Rainfed Conditions

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Intercropping Options for Sustainable Minor Millet Production: A Review

Intercropping Options for Sustainable Minor Millet Production: A Review

Evaluating Little Millet (Panicum sumatrense L.) Based Intercropping System on Growth, Yield and Nutrient Status of Soil under Rainfed Condition

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