Effect of water regime on yield of drip irrigated first ratoon cane intercropped with maize and groundnut

Code (CO)	MSI99P1527
Author (AU)	Soopramanien, G. C. Nayamuth, A. R. Batchelor, C. H.
Title - English (ET)	Effect of water regime on yield of drip irrigated first ratoon cane intercropped with maize and groundnut
Document Type(DT)	Periodical article
Date of publication (DP)	1992
Series (SE)	Agric. Water Manage.
ISSN (SN)	0378-3774
Source (SO)	22(3), 281-289
Language of text (LT)	En
Language of summaries (LS)	En
Abstract (AB)	Irrigating an inter-row cropping system particularly by the drip method offers a possible means of improving sugar yield with a concurrent increase in food crop production in the drier areas of Mauritius. In the present study, sole cane and cane intercropped with maize or groundnut were either rainfed or received full or half of their water requirements via driplines buried in between each pair of cane rows. It has been shown that maize re duces cane growth and yield and the effect is more pronounced under stress conditions. There are indications that cane can tolerate a certain amount of stress during the presence of the intercrop and recuperation is possible in the absence of water stress during the stalk elongation phase.
Descriptors - English (DE)	SUGARCANE MAIZE GROUNDNUTS TRICKLE IRRIGATION INTERCROPPING IRRIGATION IRRIGATION SYSTEMS
Descriptors - Geographic (DG)	MAURITIUS
Sort Key 1(K1)	Water use and management
Date record entered (DA)	1993-03-18
Language of analysis (LA)	En
Affiliation (AF)	Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute and Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, UK
Location (LO)	LIBBOT
Processing status (PS)	CAT
MSIRI Staff (MS)	BOT