Intercropping Leguminous Crop Plant with Non-legumes

In the current study Intercropping leguminous crop plant with non-legumes in order to achieve higher productivity from leguminous and / or non – leguminous crop plants various cultivation practices are used in agriculture which include crop rotation, mixed cropping and intercropping, proper soil and water management, weed control, used of manures and chemical fertilizer etc. out of these techniques, intercropping is considered as an age-old traditional cropping system. Cultivation of two or more crop plants simultaneously on the same piece of land in rows is called as intercropping However, when the two or more crops are simultaneously grown without any row arrangement, it is known as mixed cropping. This leads to the production of foliage with high nitrate content which is unfit for animal nutrition. Therefore, judicious use of fertilizer nitrogen has to be made to prevent deterioration of soil as well as to produce nutritious fodder free from nitrates.