1Regional Agricultural Research Station, Nandyal, Kurnool (Distt.) A.P.-518 503, India.
2Department of Botany, S.V. University, Tirupati (A.P.)-517 502, India.
Field experiments conducted during five consecutive years from 1996–97 to 2000–01 revealed that among different sunflower based cropping sequences, the sunflower equivalent yield of groundnut-sunflower was the highest (1555 kg/ha) and found at par with setaria -sunflower (1545 kg/ha) and sunflower - sunflower (1503 kg/ha). However, the net returns and benefit - cost ratio were the highest for setaria -sunflower followed by sunflower - sunflower sequences.
