ABSTRACT
A field experiment was conducted at Sugarcane Research Station, Sirugamani in 2016, to assess the Performance of Intercrops Under Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative. The experiment was laid out in strip plot design with three replications. The main plot treatments comprised of crop geometry. The subplot treatments were intercrop treatment. The intercrops were raised in additive series viz., 3 rows under a row spacing of 150 cm in sugarcane and 4 rows under 180 cm. The recommended schedule of drip fertigation for SSI was followed by using a surface drip irrigation system. The yield parameters of intercrops (like number of pods/plant, pod length, number of seeds/pod, grain yield of black gram and green gram and dry matter production of sunn hemp) were observed under SSI. The results revealed that raising black gram as an intercrop under SSI gave higher yield attributes and grain yield (1286 kg/ha) when it was intercropped with chip budded seedlings of sugarcane in a single row at a row spacing of 150 cm.
