| Summary: | Cabbage farmers in the highlands often experienced to harvest failure due
to environmental factors that do not support the growth and yield of cabbage, one
of the factors is the disease. At this time, the main disease that causes farmers
failure to harvest cabbage is a disease caused by Plasmodiophora brassicae.
Therefore, it is necessary to study the intercropping among cabbage and other
crops so that farmers can still harvest the cabbage. The objective of study was to
determine the growth and yield of cabbage that grown in the intercropping with
scallion.
The experiment was conducted at the highland area that located in Daru,
Pagergunung Village, Ngablak District, Magelang Regency, Central Java
Province in August to November 2011. The research was conducted in
randomized complete block design (RCBD) single factor, with 3 blocks as
replication. The treatments tested were intercropped cabbage and scallion, and
monoculture of cabbage and scallion. The observations were done on several
variables of environment, growth and yield of cabbage and scallion. The data
were analyzed with t-test.
The results showed that intercropping between cabbages with scallion was
more profitable when compared to the yield of monoculture of the two species, as
intercropping land equivalent ratio (LER) of 2.68. On the same stretch of land can
be harvested two commodities, namely cabbage and scallion.
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