Effect on yield of pigeonpea due to intercropping of soybean and chickpea

A inclined plate planter was modified for intercropping of soybean and pigeonpea in 5:2 in Kharif and should maintain desired spacing for sowing of chickpea on same bed in Rabi after harvesting soybean. Seed yield of pigeonpea was maximum at 25 cm bed height with 13.56 q/ha followed by 15 cm bed height and flat bed with 13.1 q/ha and 12.27 q/ha respectively at 120 row spacing with 40 number of gear teeth in intercrop planter. Whereas Maximum yield of soybean and chickpea was observed at 25 cm bed height i.e. 10.7 q/ha and 8.24 q/ha rescpectively. It was resulted that yield of soybean was affected by different bed height. From the study it was concluded that the yield was affected due to plant to plant spacing and bed height.