Evaluating the Performance of Rice in Different Intercropping Systems under Aerobic Rice Cultivation

The investigation entitled Evaluating the performance of rice in different intercropping systems under aerobic rice cultivation was conducted during kharif seasons of 2021-22 and 2022-23 at MRRC, NAU, Navsari. The experiment was carried out in Randomized Block Design with four replication. Results revealed that growth parameters of different intercrops were slightly affected by different intercropping system as compared to sole crop. Yield attributes like panicle length, panicle weight and 1000 grain weight of sole rice crop were significantly higher as compared to other intercropping system but which was at par with treatment Rice + Sorghum (6:2) and Rice + Soybean (6: 2) for panicle length. Grain and straw yield of sole rice were recorded significantly higher as compared other intercropping system during individual year as well as pooled analysis. Significantly higher rice equivalent yield was recorded under treatment T1: Rice + Sorghum (6:2) over rest of the treatments.