Underutilized Crops and Intercrops in Crop Rotation as Factors for Increasing Biodiversity on Fields

Bavec, Franc; Bavec, Martina

doi:10.5772/59131

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“…These crops have received greater attention in rotational and multiple cropping from the last decade. However, false flax (Camelina sativa L.), safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.), and garden poppy (Papaver somniferum L.) are being researched and considered for eventual introduction into crop rotations in Slovenia temperate climate region (Bavec & Bavec, 2015)…”

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Status of underutilized crop production: Its potentials for mitigating food insecurity

Adelabu

Franke

2023

Agronomy Journal

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Globally, the gap between the production of nutritious quality crops and their consumption is widening, resulting in high rates of malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies. Our goal is to examine the rich tapestry of studies on underutilized crops (UUCs) and consider their potential role in alleviating food and nutritional insecurity. Published research articles on UUC were retrieved from databases, such as Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Scopus. The key terms used were “UUC,” “neglected crops,” and lists of UUC, which were frequently cited in literature. A bibliometric innovative approach, such as reference co‐citation, co‐citation, and co‐word analysis, was used. We observed an annual growth rate of 6.4% in UUC research outputs with the number of annual publications increasing from less than 700 article publications in 2000–3000 article publications in 2021. It is also developing into a noticeably interdisciplinary research field with more collaborations and institutional affiliations. The most relevant affiliated countries in UUC‐related studies are developed and transition countries, such as the United States of America, China, India, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, and Germany. The pressing and emerging research studies in UUC‐related studies are genetic diversity and identification, agronomic knowledge, seed improvement, and environmental stresses. There is a shift in the focus of UUC studies, which provides a deeper understanding of the global trends and directions that have evolved in UUC studies over the past two decades. This result provides researchers and policymakers in the field of UUC with a useful tool for decision‐making on UUC.

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Section: Maizementioning

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Status of underutilized crop production: Its potentials for mitigating food insecurity

Adelabu

Franke

2023

Agronomy Journal

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“…Comparison of negative effects of monoculture and positive effects of crop rotation, alternative crops and intercrops on biodiversity parameters (Bavec and Bavec, 2011).…”

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“…Fig. 1 is the schematic diagram to show the positive and negative effects of intercropping on biodiversity (Bavec and Bavec, 2011).…”

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Competitive dynamic effects of wheat- Brassica intercropping: A review

2016

Int. J. Biosci.

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Intercropping depicts the growing of two or more crops at the same time in the same piece of land. Moreover it enhances the crop production per unit area and time with efficient use of resources especially for small land holders. Sowing time of oilseed crops belongs to Brassica species coincides with the wheat so these can be intercropped in wheat to get maximum land utilization. Various oilseeds like canola and lentil intercropped in wheat affects the yield and yield components, growth attributes, competitive indices as well as yield advantages.Farmers are reluctant to sacrifice wheat crop but intercropping oilseeds with wheat can be proved beneficial in terms of land equivalent ratio, aggressivity value, and yield advantages. Various intercropping types can be adopted to enhance net income of farm land. However, this review overviews the different aspects of intercropping as it may inhibit or enhances total productivity of the land as well as the key examples from the literature that favors its importance in agriculture.

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“…Intercropping is a prevalent agricultural management practice that entails simultaneously cultivating two or more crops within the same field (Vandermeer, 1989), with the aim of achieving various agronomic, environmental, and economic benefits, such as enhanced resource use efficiency (Mao et al., 2015a; Souza et al., 2023), increased biodiversity (Bavec & Bavec, 2015), improved soil health (Guo et al., 2020; X. Li et al., 2021), and higher yield (Huang et al., 2019; Q. Lv et al., 2023). In recent years, the practice of intercropping, which has been utilized for centuries in traditional farming systems, has gained renewed interest (Knörzer et al., 2009).…”

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Relay strip intercropping of wheat and cotton under limited water conditions

Çakaloğulları,

Tatar

2024

Crop Science

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Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)–cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) relay strip intercropping involves cultivating wheat sown in autumn and cotton sown in spring, allowing the two crops to grow together for ∼2 months. Despite its prevalence in cotton‐growing regions globally, this agricultural practice remains untapped in Turkey, where the emphasis on resource use efficiency and the competition between staple and cash crops are paramount. To address this, we conducted a study comparing three cropping systems under both well‐watered and limited water conditions: sole wheat with a row spacing of 13.5 cm, sole cotton with a row spacing of 70 cm, and an intercropping system consisting of four rows of wheat and two rows of cotton, with row spacings of 13.5 cm and 40.5 cm, respectively. In intercropped wheat and cotton, the relative wheat yield was 0.68, while the relative cotton yield was 0.73, resulting in a combined relative yield of 1.41 when compared to monoculture. The land equivalent ratio (1.44) and area time equivalent ratio (1.08) consistently exceeded 1.0, particularly under limited watering conditions and concurrent heat stress observed in the second year of the experiment. Our findings indicate that wheat–cotton relay intercropping holds significant potential as a highly effective approach to enhance the production of both cotton and wheat in Turkey, particularly in stressful conditions such as limited water availability.

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Underutilized Crops and Intercrops in Crop Rotation as Factors for Increasing Biodiversity on Fields

Cited by 9 publications

References 29 publications

Status of underutilized crop production: Its potentials for mitigating food insecurity

Status of underutilized crop production: Its potentials for mitigating food insecurity

Competitive dynamic effects of wheat- Brassica intercropping: A review

Relay strip intercropping of wheat and cotton under limited water conditions

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