Economic feasibility of intercropping of Fenugreek (Trigonella graecum L.) with different short duration vegetable crops

Abstract

A field experiment entitled “Economic feasibility of intercropping of Fenugreek (Trigonella graecum L.) with different short duration vegetable crops was conducted at the vegetable farm, Department of Vegetable Science, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalrapatan, Jhalawar during Rabi season 2019-20. The experiment comprised of four sole crops (fenugreek, carrot, cabbage and radish) and fenugreek intercropped with carrot, cabbage and radish with three ratios 1:1, 1:2 and 2:2 with a total of thirteen treatments each replicated thrice and laid out in randomized block design. The result shows that the sole crops viz., carrot, cabbage and radish had significant effect on growth, yield and quality over different intercropping system with fenugreek. The result revealed that intercropping of fenugreek with different short duration vegetable crops (carrot, cabbage and radish) had significant effect on equivalent yield, Land equivalent ratio and system productivity as compared to sole cropping system. The treatment T5 (fenugreek + carrot 1:1) was found most effective in increasing the fenugreek equivalent yield (54.72 q/ha), LER (1.44) and the maximum net return of 219717 with B: C ratio of (4.08) as compared to T1 (sole fenugreek) cropping system. However, the treatments T6 (fenugreek + carrot 1:2) was found at par with treatment T5 for equivalent yield and LER over sole cropping of fenugreek i.e. treatment T1).