Pulses — Blackgramintercropping
- Blackgram is intercropped with maize, cumbu, sorghum, redgram, cotton, castor and sugarcane.
| Cropping system | Row ratio |
| Maize + Blackgram | 1:2 |
| Sorghum + Blackgram | 1:1 |
| Cumbu + Blackgram | 1:1 |
| Redgram + Blackgram | 1:3 |
| Cotton + Blackgram | 1:1 |
| Castor + Blackgram | 1:2 |
| Sugarcane + Blackgram | 1:1 |
- The seed rate of 10 kg /ha is recommended for intercropping system.
- Seed treatment with biofertilizer viz., Rhizobium , and Phosphobacteria , (600 gm each) using rice gruel is recommended.
- When Blackgram to be raised as an intercrop in maize, sorghum, cumbu, sugarcane do not use Atrazine and 2,4, D as Pre and Post emergence herbicides.
- Apply Pendimethalin at 1 lit /ha as pre emergence herbicide on 3 days after sowing.
