Vol. 9, Issue 2, Part D (2025)

A field experiment was conducted at Main Agricultural Research Station, UAS, Dharwad during kharif season, 2021-22 to study the performance of intercropping of browntop millet with legumes. The experiment was laid out in randomized complete block design with thirteen treatments and three replications. Among thirteen treatments the browntop millet was intercropped with groundnut, soybean, green gram and black gram in 4:2 and 2:1 row ratio and remaining treatments were individual sole crops. Among the different treatments, the sole browntop millet was recorded significantly higher plant height, total dry matter production, number of tillers per meter row length at the all growth stages. Among the different intercropping systems, browntop millet + groundnut with 4:2 row ratio recorded significantly higher plant height, total dry matter production, number of tillers per meter row length at all growth stages. Sole browntop millet has recorded significantly higher effective tillers per meter row length (84.12), ear head length (15.20 cm), grain yield per ear head (5.19 g) and grain yield per meter row length (441.60 g). However, among the different intercropping systems, browntop millet + groundnut at 4:2 row proportion recorded significantly higher values of above mentioned yield parameters. Sole browntop millet has observed significantly higher grain and straw yield (973.61 and 2340.80 kg ha^-1, respectively), but among the different intercropping systems, 4:2 row proportion of browntop millet + groundnut recorded significantly higher grain yield (674.31 kg ha^-1) and straw yield (1580.30 kg ha^-1). In case of harvest index there was no significant differences observed between the different treatments.