CE: 1610 CF: cag11218
ARTÍCULO DE INVESTIGACIÓN
Fresh biomass and dry matter accumulation per plant in the cowpea – sorghum intercrop
Acumulación de biomasa fresca y materia seca por planta en el cultivo intercalado caupí - sorgo
Diana González Aguiar1, Ubaldo Álvarez Hernández2,Raciel Lima Orozco3
1 Departamento de Ingeniería Agrícola, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, UCLV. Carretera a Camajuaní km 5 ½, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba, CP 54830, E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
2Centro de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (CIAP), Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, UCLV. Carretera a Camajuaní km 5 ½, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba, CP 54830
ABSTRACT
With the objective to assess the fresh biomass and dry matter accumulation per plant in cowpea – sorghum intercropping, a field experiment was carried out in the farm of self-consumption "Día y Noche", at the Basic Unit of Cooperative Production "28 de Octubre", Santa Clara municipality, Villa Clara province, Cuba, on a Cambisol soil. The two spatial arrangements consisted on one sorghum row and two cowpea rows; one sorghum row and three cowpea rows. Also, the respective cowpea and sorghum monocultures were evaluated. For determining fresh biomass and dry matter accumulation per plant, 15 plants per treatment were harvested. The maximum values in fresh biomass and dry matter accumulation were observed in one sorghum row and two cowpea, and sorghum monoculture treatments.
