Major Areas — Majorareas Dryland Agromeasures Intercropping
Growing of two or more crops simultaneously on the same piece of land with a definite row pattern. E.g. growing maize + black gram in 1:2 ratio i.e. after every one row of maize two rows of black gram is sown. Thus, cropping intensity in space dimension is achieved.
Some of the cropping patterns
| S.No | Region | Intercropping system |
| 1 | North east | Groundnut + Sorghum Groundnut + Pulses (Redgram)+ Castor |
| 2 | North west | Groundnut + Pulses (Redgram) Sorghum + Lab lab Groundnut + Castor Cotton + Black gram |
| 3 | Western | Groundnut + Castor Groundnut + Redgram Sorghum + Redgram Groundnut + Sunflower |
| 4 | Southern | Sorghum + Sunflower Cotton + Black gram Cotton + Cluster bean |
Benefits :
- Intercropping system could promote the full use of crop land water by plant roots.
- Increases the water storage in root zone.
- Reduces the inter-row evaporation and control excessive transpiration.
- Create special microclimate advantageous to the plant growth and development.
- Increase the crop yieldper unit area greatly without increase of water consumption, so as to promote the crop water use efficiency effectively.
| Sorghum & Redgram | Groundnut & Castor |
| Groundnut & Sorghum | Sorghum & Black gram |