Performance of Monsoon Sown Cotton Genotypes under HDPS with Soybean - Mustard Strip Intercropping Systems

A long term experiment was conducted during the kharif season of the years 2014–15 to 2019–20 at AICRP for Dryland Agriculture, Dr. PDKV, Akola (MS) in Vertisols of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra with assured rainfall zone. On the basis of pooled results in cotton based strip intercropping system, sowing of cotton crop under high density planting system (HDPS) with soybean (6:6) > mustard, showed that treatments of arboreum cotton (AKA-7) + soybean (6:6) > mustard and American cotton (AKH-081) + soybean (6:6) > mustard strip intercropping system recorded significantly higher value of cotton equivalent yield (2043 and 1981 kg ha⁻¹), net monetary returns ( 64822 and 63449 ha⁻¹), B:C ratio (2.24 and 2.23), RWUE (3.08 and 2.92 kg ha⁻¹mm⁻¹), crop productivity (8.41& 8.15 kg ha⁻¹ mm⁻¹) and system productivity (5.60 and 5.43 kg ha⁻¹ mm⁻¹) and system profitability (266.11 and 266.76 ha¹day⁻¹ and 173.83 & 177.59 ha⁻¹ day⁻¹, respectively) than rest of the treatments.