Performance of Sweet Corn Intercrop into Stylo (Stylosanthes guyanensis) Grown for Seed Production

Date

2-1978

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

An intercropping experiment was conducted to determine the effect of varying cutting intensities of stylo grown for seeds on its seed and herbage yields and on green ear and stover yields of sweet corn intercrop.

Seed and herbage yields of stylo were not significantly affected by cutting intensity of the harvested sward.

Computed marketable green ear yield per hectare of sweet corn intercrop was not significantly by cutting intensity of stylo sward. There were longer and bigger green ears produced in plots where only the upper 25% of the stylo sward was removed. Moreover, corn plants were taller and more vigorous at this cutting intensity, hence a greater green stover yield and also an earlier silking stage. Percent dry matter of green corn stover was higher on plots where only 25% of the stylo sward was removed, but crude protein and crude fiber contents were not significantly affected.

Language

English

Location

UPLB Main Library Special Collections Section (USCS)

Call Number

LG 993.5 1978 A42 R36

Document Type

Thesis

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