Potentially of growing potato as inter/sequential crop with the widely adopted rice-sugarcane cropping system

摘要

Field studies were undertaken for two consecutive seasons (2000-2002 and 2001-2003) at the Research Farm of U.P. Council of Sugarcane Research, Shahjahanpur (U.P.) to study the potentially of growing potato as inter/sequential crop with rice-sugarcane cropping system. Results showed that sequential cropping of potato under rice-potato-spring cane cropping system produced significantly higher cane yield (109.03 t/ha) to the tune of 16.87, 20.32 and 26.62 as compared to rice-fallow-spring cane, rice-mustard-spring cane and rice-wheat-late spring cane crop sequences, respectively. Further, after rice harvest, intercropping of potato (one row) with sugarcane planted in skipped rice rows produced the significantly highest cane yield of 116.55 t/ha (6.90% higher than rice-potato-spring cane crop sequence) followed by rice-sugarcane+potato cropping system (95.49 t/ha). Yields of rice, wheat, mustard and potato as inter/sequential crops were almost normal in different cropping system. Quality of cane was un-affected due to different treatments in the study..