ECHO Research Blog Update

Dr. Tim Motis recently posted a follow up to his July 2015 post on ECHO's 2-4-2 maize/cowpea trial.  This update presents some of the data that has been collected to date.

When the legumes were sampled in July, the above-ground biomass of both weeds and legumes were sampled.  Weeds made up less than 3% of the biomass in cowpea and jackbean plots.  Weed biomass in the mucuna plots was statistically similar to that with cowpea and jackbean.  Legume biomass was greater with jackbean (2.9 tonnes per hectare) than cowpea (1.9 tonnes per hectare) and mucuna (1.6 tonnes per hectare)...

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Related Resources:

• Legume Intercropping: Trial Update (Dec 2015)
• Maize 2-4-2 Legume Intercropping: Trial Update (July 2015)
• Presentation poster by Bob Hargrave on this study prepared for the ECHO International Agriculture Conference in 2015