June 2, 2020

 

China's strip intercropping technology can boost Pakistan's crop

 

 

China's corn-soybean strip intercropping technology is suitable for Pakistan to help its corn and soybean yield to lessen the country's soybean imports and improve the nation's food security, Prof Yang Wenyu said, Technology Times reported.

 

Prof Wenyu, an educator at Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, built up this innovation and offered liberal help to two Pakistani understudies of his college who are utilising and advancing this innovation in their old neighbourhood.

 

"There's an absence of soybean plantation in Pakistan. We are happy to offer help to assist Pakistan with overcoming any issues between residential creation and imports," Wenyu said.

 

He first defined acquainting this innovation with Pakistan. His group has been supporting two students, Muhammad Ali Raza and Sajad Hussain, in exhibiting in Pakistan since 2018.

 

The utilisation of corn-soybean strip intercropping innovation in Pakistan has hypothetical and common-sense premise. Pakistan has a huge populace while the zone of arable land is restricted. It has the interest to create intercropping to grow two harvests together.

 

Moreover, Pakistan has plentiful daylight, which is an ideal condition for soybean development. In addition to this, in the intercropping fields, corn can conceal soybean to diminish high temperature effect, and nitrogen obsession by soybean can advance corn's development consequently.

 

By utilising corn-soybean strip intercropping innovation, the yield of corn can reach at 10,500 kg for every hectare with an additional 1,350 to 1,650 kg/ha soybean in Pakistan's flooded zones.

 

In rainfed regions, the yield of corn and soybean can increase up to 6,000 kg/ha and 4,500 to 1,500 kg/ha separately. At present, corn is developed on a territory of about 1.3 million hectares in Pakistan.

 

Along these lines, the country's corn yield can be ensured and extraordinarily expanded. More significantly, Pakistani ranchers can collect extensive soybean in the interim, which will create sizeable financial advantage for Pakistanis.

 

From the start there were a few questions about the innovation's exhibition on the grounds that numerous neighbourhood ranchers had not seen this sort of cultivating model previously. "For whatever length of time that they adhere to our specialised directions to plant the two harvests, this innovation makes certain to work out," Yang said with certainty.

 

"All things considered numerous nations are looking into intercropping. In any case, over the globe, our corn-soybean strip intercropping might be the main developed intercropping framework that is well-furnished with all-around advancements of field setup, treatment, bug control, and so forth and advanced on such a huge scope."

 

Other than Pakistan, it has been compared with Africa and Europe, like Ghana and Sweden. Yang Wenyu's group is working with Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences to advance the innovation in European nations.

 

In Pakistan, so far four exhibits have been organised independently in Bahawalpur, Chakwal, Islamabad, and Layyah. Yang Wenyu's group is helping out Pakistan's National Agriculture Research Center and PMAS-Arid Agriculture University to fabricate high return exhibitions.