Intercropping Maize with Faba Bean Improves Yield, Income, and Soil Fertility in Semiarid Environment

Table 2

Interaction effects of intercropping maize with two faba bean (FB) varieties at three different densities on partial and total land equivalent ratios (LERs) of the component crops.

Treatments	Partial and total LER values		Total
	Maize	FB
Maize + Gora FB at 25%	0.98a	0.34b	1.32a
Maize + Gora FB at 50%	0.90abc	0.48ab	1.38a
Maize + Gora FB at 75%	0.67d	0.62b	1.29a
Maize + Moti FB at 25%	0.80cd	0.31b	1.11b
Maize + Moti FB at 50%	0.77ab	0.53a	1.30a
Maize + Moti FB at 75%	0.75bcd	0.59a	1.34a
SEM±	0.074	0.06	0.058
LSD (5%)	0.23	0.17	0.17
CV (%)	17.3	20.6	8.2

Means along column followed by the same letters are not significantly different (). Sole FB = averaged results of Gora and Moti varieties.