Growing of intercrops in spring sugarcane | Crop Reformer

Intercropping is very successful strategy in sugarcane. A wide range of vegetables and pulses can be planted in September sown sugarcane crop but some of the summer crops may be sown as companion crop or intercrop in mid February to mid March planted spring crop of sugarcane. Initially, benefits and conditions of intercropping has been highlighted. We have advised especially farmers having small size of land holding, about different combination of intercrops in this video. For example, maize (corn) and sugarcane both have almost the similar cultural and plant protection requirements. Therefore, we have recommended that maize fodder crop may be grown as additional crop. Moreover, okra or ladys finger, coriander alone or in combination with round gourd (Tinda), sugarcane plus mung bean, sugarcane plus mash been (black gram/Mash), sugarcane plus cowpeas have also been advocated to be grown as inter crops.

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