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dc.contributor.authorAkobundu, I.
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-04T11:27:03Z
dc.date.available2019-12-04T11:27:03Z
dc.date.issued1980
dc.identifier.citationAkobundu, I. (1980). Live mulch: a new approach to weed control and crop production in the tropics, Proceedings of the 1980 British Crop Protection Conference - weeds (15th British Weed Control Conference), Ibadan, Nigeria, 17th to 20th November, 1980. Croydon, United Kingdom: British Crop Protection Council (p. 377-382).
dc.identifier.isbn0-901436-64-X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/4824
dc.description.abstractLive mulch is a crop production technique in which a food crop is planted directly in a living cover of an established cover crop without tillage or destruction of the fallow vegetation. The effect of several established legume covers on weed competition, fertilizer requirement and yield of maize was studied in the field at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. Weed infestation was heaviest in unweeded conventionally tilled and no-tillage plots, but very low in unweeded Centrosema pubescens and Psophocarpus palustris plots. Consequently, maize yield was reduced in all ground covers where weed infestation was heavy but not in the covers that effectively suppressed weeds. Maize yield was significantly higher in the live mulch plots that received no fertilizer than in similarly treated conventionally tilled and no-tillage plots. When 60 kg/ha each of N, P2O5 and K2O was applied to all ground covers, maize yield in the live mulch plots was either equal to or better than in the conventionally tilled and no-tillage plots.
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectCrop Production
dc.subjectWeeds
dc.subjectMaize
dc.subjectSmallholders
dc.titleLive mulch: a new approach to weed control and crop production in the tropics
dc.typeConference Paper
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWest Africa
cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.iitasubjectWeeds
cg.iitasubjectSmallholder Farmers
cg.iitasubjectMaize
cg.iitasubjectGrain Legumes
cg.accessibilitystatusLimited Access
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