Haifa Hossen*1, Naziha Ruqaya2 and Nabil Habib2
1 Syrian Grain Establishment, Latakia, Syria.
2 Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Tishreen University, Latakia, Syria.
(*Corresponding author: Haifa Hossen. E-Mail: haifahossen@yahoo.com).
Received: 26/ 06/ 2024 Accepted: 24/ 09/ 2024
Abstract
The research was carried out during the two agricultural seasons 2019 and 2020 by planting two lines of barley and triticale sourced from the General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research , in addition to common vetch (Vicia sativa L.), where cultivation took place on the Boqa farm affiliated with the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering at Tishreen University. to study the effect of mixing ratios of barley and triticale with vetch on some productive traits of vetch. The experiment was implemented according to a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with three replicates. The results indicated a significant effect of mixed cultivation in terms of the type of grass crop and its percentage in the mixture on the number of pods on the plant, the number of seeds per pod, the weight of a thousand seeds, the separation index, and the harvest index in vetch grown within the mixture. Vetch excelled in single cultivation in all the studied characteristics, while the number of pods, the number of seeds per pod, the filtering index, and the harvest index in vetch grown in the fodder mixture decreased significantly as the percentage of cereal plants included in the mixture increased. The opposite was observed with regard to the weight of a thousand seeds in the vetch. Barley showed stronger competition. of vetch in the mixture compared to triticale, as all the studied traits were negatively affected and to a greater extent in the vetch treatments grown with barley compared to the vetch treatments grown with triticale. The mixture consisting of 75% vetch and 25% triticale was superior in terms of the number of pods, number of seeds per pod, screening index, and harvest index over the rest of the mixtures. As for the weight of a thousand seeds, the mixture consisting of 75% triticale and 25% vetch was superior to the rest of the mixtures.
Keywords: Common vetch, Barley, Triticale, Forage mixtures.
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