Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Field experiment was carried out at Gemmiza Agricultural Research Station, Agricultural Research Center, El-Gharbia governorate, Egypt during 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 seasons to determine the most suitable faba bean cultivar for intercropping with sugar beet in order to increase land equivalent ratio and farmer's benefit.Four faba bean cultivars (Sakha 1, Misr 1, Giza 843 and Giza 3 'Improved') were intercropped to sugar beet in a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications.Sole cultures of sugar beet and faba bean were used for calculating competitive relationships and net return.Sugar beet plants grown with faba bean cultivar Misr 1 had higher total chlorophyll content and leaf area and better sugar beet root yield and its attributes than those intercropped with the other faba bean cultivars in both seasons.Faba bean plants of Giza 843 grown with sugar beet had higher total chlorophyll content and leaf area compared with the other cultivars in both seasons.In addition, Giza 843 had higher number of branches and pods plant -1 , number of seeds pod -1 , 100-seed weight, seed yield plant -1 and seed and straw yields fed -1 than the other faba bean cultivars in the two seasons.Land equivalent ratio and relative crowding coefficient were above 1.00 indicating intercropping advantages for all treatments.The value of aggressivity of sugar beet was negative for all treatments indicating that sugar beet was dominated component in the present study.Intercropping faba bean cultivar Misr 1 with sugar beet was more profitable to farmers than the rest of tested cultivars and the sole culture of sugar beet for gross income and net return.
Language: English
Subfield: Agronomy and Crop Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4206793791