Volume 16, Issue 4 (Journal of Soil and Plant Interactions 2025)
2025, 16(4): 73-89 |
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1- Department of Agriculture, Payame Noor University, Iran , mr_naghavi@pnu.ac.ir
2- Department of Agriculture, Payame Noor University, Iran
2- Department of Agriculture, Payame Noor University, Iran
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Background and Objective: The use of organic fertilizers, in addition to reducing the use of chemical fertilizers, can also play an important role in environmental health. It is important to investigate the various ecological and economic aspects of intercropping plants using different fertilizers. This experiment was conducted to compare the agronomic and economic characteristics of pure and mixed cropping patterns of garlic and fenugreek under organic and chemical nutrition conditions.
Methods: This experiment was conducted as a split-plot based on randomized complete blocks design with three replications at the Research Farm of the Faculty of Agriculture of Shirvan, Iran, during the 2021‒2022 growing season. The main factor was the control, chemical fertilizer, and compost as organic fertilizer, and the secondary factor included pure cultivation of garlic and fenugreek, mixed cultivation of 25% garlic with 75% fenugreek, 50% garlic with 50% fenugreek, and 75% garlic with 25% fenugreek.
Results: The use of compost resulted in the highest percentages of essential oil in garlic and fenugreek (2.53 and 1.19%, respectively), and the control plants showed the lowest percentages of essential oil in garlic and fenugreek (1.99 and 0.89%, respectively). Plants fed with compost and chemical fertilizers under pure cultivation conditions had the highest dry forage yield, biological yield, and grain yield. On the other hand, the highest economic benefit was obtained from the intercropping pattern, so that the highest economic benefit belonged to the intercropping treatment of 75% garlic and 25% fenugreek under compost fertilization conditions.
Conclusion: The results of this study showed the agronomic and economic advantages of the intercropping pattern over monocropping, and organic nutrition system over chemical fertilization in garlic and fenugreek cultivation. Overall, implementing an intercropping system with ratios of 75% garlic with 25% fenugreek and 50% garlic with 50% fenugreek with compost fertilization was more suitable.
Methods: This experiment was conducted as a split-plot based on randomized complete blocks design with three replications at the Research Farm of the Faculty of Agriculture of Shirvan, Iran, during the 2021‒2022 growing season. The main factor was the control, chemical fertilizer, and compost as organic fertilizer, and the secondary factor included pure cultivation of garlic and fenugreek, mixed cultivation of 25% garlic with 75% fenugreek, 50% garlic with 50% fenugreek, and 75% garlic with 25% fenugreek.
Results: The use of compost resulted in the highest percentages of essential oil in garlic and fenugreek (2.53 and 1.19%, respectively), and the control plants showed the lowest percentages of essential oil in garlic and fenugreek (1.99 and 0.89%, respectively). Plants fed with compost and chemical fertilizers under pure cultivation conditions had the highest dry forage yield, biological yield, and grain yield. On the other hand, the highest economic benefit was obtained from the intercropping pattern, so that the highest economic benefit belonged to the intercropping treatment of 75% garlic and 25% fenugreek under compost fertilization conditions.
Conclusion: The results of this study showed the agronomic and economic advantages of the intercropping pattern over monocropping, and organic nutrition system over chemical fertilization in garlic and fenugreek cultivation. Overall, implementing an intercropping system with ratios of 75% garlic with 25% fenugreek and 50% garlic with 50% fenugreek with compost fertilization was more suitable.
Keywords: Chemical fertilizers, Organic fertilizers, Essential oil, Advantage, Land equivalent ratio.
Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
Availability of soil water and nutrients for plant
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