Grain peas are a valuable feed crop containing around 20% crude protein. Cultivated as a pure crop, grain peas are prone to lodging, which often leads to late weed infestation, soil contaminated grains and yield loss.
Solution
The cultivation of half-leafless grain peas and barley prevents lodging and quality/yield loss. After several years of trials in Switzerland, the intercropping of grain peas and barley be-came a standard to cultivate grain peas.
Description
This tool provides practical recommendations for intercropping peas and barley and explains the benefits such as barley providing support to the peas, preventing lodging
and, thus, reducing yield loss. It also increases the soil cover and thus suppresses weeds. Growing two crops at the same time also mitigates the risk of yield loss in one of the crops. With intercropping there is a higher land utilisation per hectare than with pure stand.
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