PLANTAIN PRODUCTION WITH NO TILLAGE AND RELAY CROPPING IN PUERTO RICO
- Liu, L. C.
- Oritz-Lopez, Juan
- Rodriguez, J. A.
- Torres-Rivera, Santiago
DOIAbstract
Two plantain production experiments were conducted from 1989 to 1992 at Corozal, P.R. to determine the effect of tillage practice and relay intercropping regimes on yield of the cultivar Maricongo (Musa acuminata jr M. balbisiana ). The first experiment used a planting distance of 1.8 χ 1.8 m and the second experiment 3.1 χ 1.5 m. Two tillage practices were included: conventional tillage and no tillage. There were no significant differences in the plant crop yield (P<0.05) among the treatments for the first and second experiments. However, in the first experiment, the conventional tillage treatment outyielded the one of the no-till, relay crop treatments introduced when the plant crop was 9-month old with regard to the relay crop yield. In ...
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