Interplanting Catch Crops with Ginger under Semi-Water- Logged Soils

Date

10-1973

Adviser/Committee Chair

Teodoro G. Cadiz

Co-adviser

Hipolito aycardo

Abstract

A study was conducted to determine the maximum number and best combination of intercrops that could be relay planted with ginger in a poorly drained area during the rainy season. The test crops used were cabbage, mungo, tomato, soybean, sweet corn, and sweet potato.

Results showed that a maximum of three intercrops could be planted with ginger. Field data of the test crops suggest that mungo and soybean are best used as first crops, sweet potato as a second crop, and cabbage, sweet corn and tomato as third crops.

The yields of ginger from intercropped plots with the exception of the ginger-sweet potato-soybean-tomato plot, where significantly higher than that of the control plot i. e. ginger without the intercrop. The highest yield and consequently the highest return was obtained from the ginger-soybean-sweet corn-cabbage plot which showed a total rhizome yield of about 100 per cent more than the control plot. The soluble solid contents of ginger from intercropped plots were also significantly higher than that of the control.

The highest estimated total income per plot or per hectare was noted in the ginger-sweet potato-soybean-tomato cropping pattern followed by ginger-soybean-sweet corn-cabbage. However, the former gave the lowest, while the latter had the highest yield of ginger among the cropping pattern tested. Also, in these schemes more than 50 and 80 per cent of the total income were contributed by cabbage and tomato respectively.

It was conducted that ginger can be grown profitably during the rainy season by intercropping it with catch crops. The intercrops provide shade to ginger and will give a substantial amount of income to farmers.

Language

English

Location

UPLB Main Library Special Collections Section (USCS)

Call Number

LG 993.5 1973 A42 Q56

Document Type

Thesis

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