Abstract:
Objective The aims were to study the difference of yield, nutrient uptake and utilization of sugarcane and peanut between Wide-row clustered sugarcane intercropping with peanut and mono-cropping mode, in order to clarify the application prospect of wide row bush sugarcane intercropping peanut.
Method Cultivation modes of Wide-row clustered sugarcane intercropping with peanut (IS + IP), monoculture sugarcane (MS) and monoculture peanut (MP) were set up to study the effects of intercropping on yield, nutrient uptake and utilization of sugarcane and peanut.
Result Compared with MS treatment, IS + IP treatment significantly increased the contents of soil available nitrogen (N), available phosphorus (P) and organic matter in sugarcane cultivation soil by 18.2% ~ 20.1%, 17.8% ~ 35.1% and 12.2% ~ 38.8%, respectively. Compared with MS treatment, total N, total P and total potassium (K) of sugarcane plants in IS + IP treatment increased at the acicula forming stage of peanut, and decreased at the pod producing stage and maturity stage of peanut. Compared with MP treatment, IS + IP treatment significantly decreased the content of available K in peanut cultivation soil (decreased by 24.2% ~ 47.2%), total N (decreased by 5.6% ~ 31.3%) and total K (decreased by 12.8% ~ 26.6%) in peanut plants, respectively. Wide-row clustered sugarcane intercropping with peanut showed obvious intercropping advantage with LER value of 1.41. The yield of sugarcane under IS + IP treatment was 18.3% higher than that of MS treatment. The yield of intercropping peanut was 1642.70 kg hm−2.
Conclusion Wide-row clustered sugarcane intercropping with peanut significantly increased soil nutrient content, stem weight and yield of intercropped sugarcane, and increases one season's yield of peanut. It is an efficient planting mode.