Ecology, Environment and Conservation Paper

Vol 27, Issue 1, 2021; Page No.(365-368)

RESPONSE OF AVENA SATIVA L. INTERCROPPING WITH EGYPTIAN CLOVER TO DIFFERENT PLANTING DENSITY AND DISTANCES IN GREEN FODDER YIELD

Mundher Kh. Jabbar and Hayder A. Hasan

Abstract

The experiment was conducted during winter of the season 2019-2020 in the fields of the field crops department – Agriculture college / Al-qasim green university, to investigate the response of green fodder yield to planting density and plant distances, A factorial arrangement in randomized complete block design with three replications was used, first factor was included plant density : D1 (50% oat = 60 kg ha-1 + 50% berseem = 20 kg ha-1), D2 (60% oat = 72 kg ha-1 + 40% berseem = 16 kg ha-1) and D3 (40% oat = 48 kg ha-1 + 60% berseem = 24 kg ha-1), second factor was included : A1 (15 cm among lines) and A2 (30 cm among lines). The treatment (D2) was superior in leaf area, chlorophyll content, green fodder yield and percentage of protein while (D3) was superior in number leaves per plant, treatment (A2) was superior in all study traits, A linear relationship was found between planting density with plant distances was found in treatment (D2 × A2) in leaf area, number of leaves per plant, chlorophyll content and green fodder yield while the treatment (D2 × A1) was superior in percentage of protein.