Evaluation of Berseem in Relay Cropping with Mustard as a Viable Climate Resilience Technology for Income Enhancement in semi-arid tropics Areas

DOI: 10.22161/ijeab.105.4

Abstract:
Trifolium alexandrinum, commonly known as Berseem is the main legume fodder cultivated in the south-east Asia because of its more vegetative growth, multi-cut nature, better forage output after harvesting, prolonged time of forage provision, and prominent fodder yield with outstanding delicious and excessive beneficial values of 20-21% crude protein and 62% total edible food. The livestock is contributing up to 40 % of total annual income of small and marginal farmers of district. However, there was significant scarcity of green fodder during lean period. To increase the green fodder availability with increase in net farm income present study was undertaken to evaluate the berseem in relay cropping with mustard crop at farmers field in NICRA project at KVK Morena. The results revealed that the crop of berseem grown as relay cropping with mustard is shown higher net return and B:C ratio compared as sole crop of mustard or berseem. As per our findings, the mustard crop establishment and relay cropping with legume crop berseem with mustard have overall beneficial and wide scope for its adoption in similar agro-ecological circumstances under present changing climate condition.

Keywords:
Relay cropping, Berseem, Mustard, Farm Income and Climate

Article Info:
Received: 27 Jul 2025; Received in revised form: 29 Aug 2025; Accepted: 01 Sep 2025; Available online: 08 Sep 2025

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