Legumes and cereal yield on intercropping versus monocropping pattern systems field experiments in Senegal, Madagascar and Kenya

Masse Dominique, Ndour Y.B., Guèye F., Rabary Bodovololona, Razafindrakoto Charles, Lesueur Didier, Vanlauwe Bernard, Mugendi D.N., Chotte Jean-Luc. 2010. Legumes and cereal yield on intercropping versus monocropping pattern systems field experiments in Senegal, Madagascar and Kenya. In : Proceedings of Agro 2010 : the XIth ESA Congress, August 29th - September 3rd, 2010, Montpellier, France. Wery Jacques (ed.), Shili-Touzi I. (ed.), Perrin A. (ed.). Montpellier : Agropolis international, 307-308. ISBN 978-2-909613-01-7 ESA Congress. 11, Montpellier, France, 29 Août 2010/3 Septembre 2010.

Résumé : The intercropping practice where two or more cultivated plants are associated is considered as a relevant practice to contribute to sustainable development and natural resource management. These cropping patterns have been actually largely used in tropical smallholders farming systems. However, multiple fields experiments on intercropping cropping system compared to monocropping or rotation systems were scarce. That's why new fields experiments have been carried out in a research program on the soil microbial diversity for the management of soil ecosystem services in the tropics (Microbes-ANR). Indeed, three field trials testing different cropping patterns with cereal and legume plants were implemented in Senegal, Madagascar and Kenya. This communication presents the crop yields during the first three years of these experiments. We analyzed more particularly the interaction between the two cultivated plants in the intercropping cropping systems relative to the pedoclimatic situation. The hypothesis was that the legume and the cereal production could mutually take advantage when they were associated on the same field.

Classification Agris : F08 - Systèmes et modes de culture
F01 - Culture des plantes

Auteurs et affiliations

• Masse Dominique, CIRAD-PERSYST-UMR Eco&Sols (FRA)
• Ndour Y.B., ISRA (SEN)
• Guèye F., ISRA (SEN)
• Rabary Bodovololona, CENDRADERU (MDG)
• Razafindrakoto Charles, CENDRADERU (MDG)
• Lesueur Didier, CIRAD-PERSYST-UPR Ecosystèmes de plantations (KEN) ORCID: 0000-0002-6694-0869
• Vanlauwe Bernard, TSBF (KEN)
• Mugendi D.N., Kenyatta University (KEN)
• Chotte Jean-Luc, IRD (FRA)

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