Growth of rice, mungbean, soybean, peanut, rice bean and blackgram as sole and intercrops

Studies on sole and intercropping systems reveal that rice-based intercropping systems like rice+mungbean and rice+blaekgram accumulated greater amount of combined dry matter at 0 DAS than the respective sole crops; while sole crops of peanut, soybean and rice bean recorded greater amount of dry matter than the intercropped ones. Intercropping of 2 rows of rice+1 row of mungbean and 2 rows of rice+1 row of blackgram recorded higher combined LAI at 45 DAS than sole crops of mungbean and blackgram, whereas intercropping of rice+soybean, rice+peanut and rice+rice bean recorded LAI lower than the respective component crops of legume. At 60 DAS, 2 rows of rice+1 row of soybean and 2 rows of rice +1 row of blackgram recorded higher combined LAI than sole cropping of legumes.