Intercropping Sweet Corn with Stylo Grown for Herbage Production

Date

3-1978

Degree

Bachelor of Science in Agriculture

Major Course

Major in Agronomy

College

College of Agriculture and Food Science (CAFS)

Adviser/Committee Chair

Arturo C. Alferez

Abstract

A study was conducted to determine the performance of sweet corn intercropped into stylo and its effects on herbage yield of stylo. Stylo was planted in rows 0.5 meter apart and allowed to establish for six months when initial cutting was made. Thereafter, two cutting intervals of stylo sward were made :60 and 90 days. Sweet corn was interplanted in rows between stylo rows at two plant population densities, 40,000 and 60,000 plants per hectare.

Fresh herbage yield of pure stylo award (87.55 tons/ha) was higher are compared to those with corn intercrop at 40,000 plants (51.49 tons/ha) and 60,000 plants (55.04 tons/ha) per hectare. Marketable green ear yield of sweet corn was 6.40 tons per hectare at a plant population density of 60,000 plants per hectare and 5.72 tons per hectare at a plant population density of 40,000 plants per hectare but the mean difference was not statistically significant. Cutting interval did not significantly affect green ear yield.

Green stover yield of sweet corn intercrop at a plant population density of 60,000 plants per hectare was about 39% higher as compared to those of 40,000 plant population density. Cutting interval of stylo did not significantly affect green stover yield of sweet corn.

Crude protein and crude fiber content of corn stover, days to silking and plant height of sweet corn intercrop were not significantly affected either by corn plant population density or by cutting of stylo sward.

Language

English

Location

UPLB Main Library Special Collections Section (USCS)

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