| Effect Of Intercropping And Fertilization On The Yield And Quality Of Stevia As A Natural Sweetener |
| Paper ID : 1012-FCANVU |
| Authors |
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Basma R.A. Rashwan * Plant Nutrition Department, Soils, Water and Environment Research Institute Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt |
| Abstract |
| Due to the need of stevia plants an appropriate temperature throughout the year and to save the costs of its cultivation inside agricultural greenhouses for adjusting the appropriate temperature intercropping was proposed as an alternative approach, where wheat and faba bean were loaded for heating in winter and intercropping sunflowers and maize for shading in summer in addition to increasing the area. The cultivation of these economic crops is needed to fill the nutritional gap of grains and oils. So, The Field experiment was conducted through 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 at the Experimental Farm of Mallawi Agricultural Research Station, El-Minia Governorate, Egypt to investigate the effect of intercropping and fertilization on the yield and quality of stevia as a natural sweetener. A split-plot design was used the main plot consisted of five intercropping patterns, while the sources of fertilizer were assigned in sub-plot. Results showed that intercropping pattern had a significant effect on most aspects of growth in both seasons. It was noticed that the treatment of 80% N mixed with biofertilizers and compost surpassed the other treatments in both seasons The net profit of using mixing biofertilizer + Compost plus 80 % mineral N fertilizer for stevia and wheat intercrop recorded 651.075 &691.403 L.E. fed in the 1 st and 2 nd successive seasons, respectively. |
| Keywords |
| Intercropping, fertilization Steviarebaudiana; biomass; steviol glycosides; agrotechnologies; stevioside; rebaudioside. |
| Status: Accepted |