Indian Journal of Ecology

Forage intercropping integrates crops and livestock production because forages can be grown as intercrops with grain crops. It is characterized by rotation and diversification in time and space dimensions. The experiment on performance of sorghum in mixture with pearl millet was conducted to study the benefits of intercropping/mixed cropping. The experiment included two sowing methods (line sowing and broad cast sowing) and five seed proportions (100:0, 75:25, 50:50, 25:75 and 0:100) of sorghum and pearl millet hybrids. The sowing of sorghum pearl millet under line sowing in 25:75 seed proportion resulted in better emergence count, higher herbage and crude protein yields, higher land equivalent ratio, more net returns and B:C ratio as compared to other treatments.