Productive and Ecological Aspects of Mixed Cropping System

• Autres auteurs: Wenda-Piesik, Anna (Éditeur intellectuel), Synowiec, Agnieszka (Éditeur intellectuel)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Sujets: Research & information: general; barley; oats; triticale; yield; leaf area index; land equivalent ratio; standard gross margin; brachiaria; cereal-livestock production; perception; push-pull technology; smallholder farmers; proximity effect; border effect; neighbor effect; strip intercropping; legume; cereals; Hordeum vulgare; Lolium multiflorum; phosphorus; water stress; competition indices; plant development stages; spring cereal mixtures; grain yield; protein yield; metabolic energy yield; differentiations of cereal mixture; sustainable agriculture; maize; Zea mays L.; biodiversity; intercropping; silage; growth; quality; non-legume; mixed crop; herbivores; pest population; natural enemy; cereal-legume mixture; common vetch; cultivar; soil quality; organic farming; conventional farming; leaf greenness index; seed yield; yield components; n/a
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Mixed cropping, also known as inter-cropping or co-cultivation, is a plant production system that involves planting two or more species (or cultivars) in the same field in a variable order-row or rowless-simultaneously. Mixed cropping plays an important role in sustainable agriculture by adding valu...