Effects of Spatial Row Arrangement and Time of Planting Intercrops on Performance of Groundnut (<i>Arachis hypogaea</i> L.) under Maize (<i>Zea mays</i> L.)—Groundnut Intercropping System in Ejura — Oak Academic Publishing
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Effects of Spatial Row Arrangement and Time of Planting Intercrops on Performance of Groundnut (<i>Arachis hypogaea</i> L.) under Maize (<i>Zea mays</i> L.)—Groundnut Intercropping System in Ejura
Department of Horticulture and Crop Production, School of Agriculture and Technology, Dormaa Ahenkro Campus, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana
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Department of Horticulture and Crop Production, School of Agriculture and Technology, Dormaa Ahenkro Campus, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana
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Department of Horticulture and Crop Production, School of Agriculture and Technology, Dormaa Ahenkro Campus, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana
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Department of Horticulture and Crop Production, School of Agriculture and Technology, Dormaa Ahenkro Campus, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana
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Department of Horticulture and Crop Production, School of Agriculture and Technology, Dormaa Ahenkro Campus, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana
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Department of Horticulture and Crop Production, School of Agriculture and Technology, Dormaa Ahenkro Campus, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana
1 Department of Horticulture and Crop Production, School of Agriculture and Technology, Dormaa Ahenkro Campus, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana
2 Department of Horticulture and Crop Production, School of Agriculture and Technology, Dormaa Ahenkro Campus, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana
3 Department of Horticulture and Crop Production, School of Agriculture and Technology, Dormaa Ahenkro Campus, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana
4 Department of Horticulture and Crop Production, School of Agriculture and Technology, Dormaa Ahenkro Campus, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana
5 Department of Horticulture and Crop Production, School of Agriculture and Technology, Dormaa Ahenkro Campus, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana
6 Department of Horticulture and Crop Production, School of Agriculture and Technology, Dormaa Ahenkro Campus, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana
In monoculture, crop failure due to biotic or abiotic causes can result in partial or total output failure. The yield, socio-economic, and environmental effects of intercropping on the farmer and the environment as a whole have not received much attention. There is a dearth of knowledge on the productivity of maize-groundnut intercrops in Ghana regarding the relative timing of planting and spatial arrangement of component crops. Therefore, the objective of the study was to determine the effects of spatial row arrangement and the time of planting intercrops on the productivity of groundnut under maize-groundnut intercropping. The 5 × 3 factorial field experiment was undertaken at the Miminaso community in the Ejura-Sekyedumase municipality of the Ashanti Region of Ghana during the 2020 cropping seasons. Treatments were evaluated in a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with three replicates. The levels of row arrangement of intercrops were: one row of maize and one row of groundnut (1M1G), one row of maize and two rows of groundnut (1M2G), two rows of maize and one row of groundnut (2M1G), two rows of maize and two rows of groundnut (2M2G), sole maize and sole groundnut (M/G). The levels of time of introducing groundnut included simultaneous planting of intercrops (0 WAP), planting groundnut one week after planting maize (1 WAP) and planting groundnut two weeks after planting maize (2 WAP). There were significant (P < 0.05) treatment interactions for pod and seed yields of groundnut throughout the study. The highest groundnut pod yields of 1815.00 kg/ha and 2359.00 kg/ha were recorded by the 0WAP × 1M2G treatment in the major and minor seasons of 2020, respectively, while the highest groundnut seed yields of 741.00 kg/ha and 726.00 kg/ha were recorded in the major and minor rainy seasons of 2020 by 1WAP × G and 0WAP × G treatments, respectively. The highest seed yields of groundnut (404 kg/ha and 637 kg/ha for major and minor rainy seasons, respectively) were produced by 1WAP × 2M2G.
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