Effect of tillage practices, mulching and intercropping on rainfed maize (Zea mays) in foothill of Shivaliks, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir

A field experiment was conducted during the rainy (kharif) season of 2017 and 2018 at Advanced Centre for Rainfed Agriculture, Sher-e-Kashmir University Agricultural Sciences Technology, Jammu, Dhianasr, Jammu Kashmir to evaluate effect tillage, residue mulching intercropping on nutrients, growth yield rainfed maize (Zea mays L.). The laid out in a randomized block design with 3 replications. treatments included conventional tillage (CT), CT+ (CTm), CT + mash [Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper] (CTi), minimum (MT), MT (MTm), (MTi), (MTr), zero (ZT), ZT (ZTm) (ZTr). highest grain (3.01 t/ha) attributes were recorded incorporation (MTr). However, all par when equivalent intercrop taken. sown by resulted 34.3% reduction as compared tillage. stover ranged from 5.65 7.93 t/ha harvest index 23.8 32.5% par.