dc.contributor.author | Okinyi, B E | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-03T13:53:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-05-03T13:53:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1984 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Okinyi, B.E(1984). Studies on mixtures of cotton (gossypium hirsutum l.) and beans (phaseolus vulgaris l.) with special reference to planting arrangement | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/18786 | |
dc.description | Msc -Thesis | en |
dc.description.abstract | Studies were conducted at Mwea Tebere Research
Station and Wanguru Sunflower Research Centre to
evaluate the effect of growing cotton (Gossypium
hirsutum L.) in mixture with field beans (Phaseolus
vulgaris LJ on their respective yields and on the
combined yield from a unit area of land. The studies
were also designed to test the effect of various
patterns of planting on the yield of each of the two
crops as well as evaluating the efficiency with which
rainfall is utilized. The study further considered
the effect of intercropping on weeds.
It was found that the yield of seed cotton was
not-influenced by the companion crop of beans, but,
was significantly effected by the row to row spacing
of cotton with closer rows producing more seed cotton
than wider rows. The yield of dry beans was however
slightly reduced by mixing the latter with cotton.
Results showed that huge advantages in land
productivity and monetary earnings can be obtained
by mixing cotton with beans compared to growing these
crops separately. Such advantages varied with the
planting patterns.
It was further observed that in a bimodal
rairifall pattern such as in Central Kenyat rainfall
is more efficiently utilized when cotton is mixed
with beans than by growing either of the crops
separately. Observations on weed problems indicated
that weeds are suppressed a great deal through mixing
cotton with beans and the return per unit labour
used in weeding was greater in mixed stands than in
pure~stand cotton. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | University of Nairobi | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.subject | Cotton (gossypium hirsutum l.) | en |
dc.subject | Beans (phaseolus vulgaris l.) | en |
dc.subject | Planting arrangement. | en |
dc.title | Studies on mixtures of cotton (gossypium hirsutum l.) and beans (phaseolus vulgaris l.) with special reference to planting arrangement | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
local.publisher | Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection, University of Nairobi | en |