Assessment of monetary advantage of intercropping in autumn planted sugarcane

Abstract

Field experiment was conducted during rabi,2017 at Regional Sugarcane and Rice Research Station- Rudrur, Nizamabad, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Telangana. Sugarcane variety 85R186 was intercropped with six different winter crops to identify most profitable intercrop. The experiment was conducted in randomized block design with three replications.The treatments comprised T1- sole sugarcane, T2 -SC + Coriander (leaf), T3- SC + Methi, T4 -SC + Cabbage, T5 -SC + Cauliflower, T6- SC + beetroot and T7 -Sugarcane + Wheat. Higher equivalent cane yield was recorded in Sugarcane + cauliflower (126.88) and Sugarcane +beetroot (126.26) & Sugarcane + cabbage (123.66) intercropping combination. Intercropping increased net returns significantly with Sugarcane + beetroot (Rs 2,60,695.00 ha-1), Sugarcane + cabbage (Rs 2,37,540.00 ha 1) &Sugarcane + cauliflower (Rs 2,29,820.00 ha-1) over sole sugarcane (Rs 144355.00 ha 1). Higher Monetary advantage index (MAI) value was obtained from sugarcane + beetroot (138171) & sugarcane + cabbage (136565) intercropping system.