Tahereh MOGHBELI, Sahebali BOLANDNAZAR, Jaber PANAHANDE, Yaegoob RAEI

Effects of Additive Intercropping on Mineral Uptake of Onion and Fenugreek at Different Densities

Increasing world population demands for food, limited natural resources have created the risk of food security forcurrent and future generations. Intercropping is regarded as an effective strategy in sustainable agriculture. Therefore,current study was carried out to evaluate the nutrient uptake of onion and fenugreek intercropping system during twogrowing season of (2015-2016 and 2016-2017) at a research field in Kerman, Iran. Two factorial experiments based oncompletely random blocks design with three replications were carried out. The treatments in this study were including:onion densities as the first factor (30, 25 and 20 plants m-2) and fenugreek densities as the second factor at three levelsof 25, 15 and 12 plants m-2 with sole cropping of two species at these densities. Results showed that in the both ofyears, mineral concentration and uptake (N, P and K) of onion leaf and bulb and fenugreek in intercropping increasedin comparison with mono cropping for two species. In both years, the highest and lowest nutrient content of onion wasobserved in the densities of 30 and 20 plant m-2. In general, it can be said that intercropping systems have some positiveeffects on nutrient content and uptake of onion.

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