How to enhance the agronomic performance of cactus-sorghum intercropped system: planting configurations, density and orientation

Clarifying cultivation techniques and making production systems more efficient are practices that have been much sought after in agricultural recent decades. In this context, the forage yield, biological efficiency, competitive ability, of different strategies for intercropping cactus sorghum were determined biosaline from 2018 to 2020 Brazil. Four experiments carried out, comprising: 1) cropping configurations cactus-sorghum system; 2 3) planting densities intercropped with an east-west north-south row orientation, respectively; 4) sorghum. Each experiment used a randomised block design four replications. The showed higher productivity than monocropped systems. indices efficiency (LER, ATER, LEC SPI mean values equal 1.6, 1.8, 0.6 29.0, respectively) ability (ALGY average 870.6) show better performance under system compared single crops. increased density resulted increase (on 69.4% dry matter). turn, orientation had no influence on but offered conditions when was direction (21.7 Mg ha?1 matter) (17.5 Intercropping using agriculture is excellent alternative semi-arid environments, especially at (50,000 100,000 plants ha?1).