Produção e qualidade de fitomassa em diferentes estádios de culturas solteiras e consorciadas de guandu-anão, sorgo e milheto

Abstract

Objected with this work to evalue the vegetable matter production, the accumulation of N and relation C/N of phytomass in different stages of single crops and consortiums of pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) and millet (Pennisetum glaucum). The experimental was conducted in a Experimental Farm of Unoeste, at Presidente Prudente-SP, during March and June, 2006. It was used the randomized experimental design in blocks, in the factorial scheme, with the followings treatments: sorghum monoculture, pigeon pea and millet, and consortium of sorghum + pigeon pea, millet + pigeon pea and millet + sorghum, with stages of collection at 30, 60 e 90 days after seeding. The millet was more expressive in the initial grouth velocity, so that species in consortium were dominated, and it produced more phytomass in the intercropping than in the monocultures. The best period to handle consortiums of millet + pigeon pea and sorghum + pigeon pea were at 60 and 90 days after seeding in off-season time, respectively. The consortium sorghum + pigeon pea submitted better balance in composition to straw, because there was more timing between growth velocity of both species. The monoculture of grass submitted straw with relation C/N more elevated than in the intercropping millet + pigeon pea and sorghum + pigeon pea.