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6.3.3.5 Wheat Intercropped with Sugarcane
Ahmed et  al. (2013) indicated that under wheat intercropped with fall sugarcane
system, sugarcane is cultivated in September and wheat is cultivated in November
on the top of the wide furrows in four rows. Wheat is harvested in April and sugarcane is continue its life cycle (Fig. 6.4).
Under wheat intercropped with fall sugarcane system, wheat is cultivated with
50% of its recommended planting density and produces 50% of its yield, compared
to sole planting, with no reduction in sugarcane yield. We assumed that 10% of the
fall sugarcane area will be assigned to be cultivated with the wheat intercropping
system. Table 6.10 indicated that this intercropping system can produce 100.4 thousand tons of wheat seeds from the assigned area of the total area of fall sugarcane,
namely 13.4 thousand hectares.
The total cultivated area with wheat as a result of implementing the suggested
intercropping systems and its production are presented in Table 6.11 The results in
Fig. 6.4 Harvested wheat plants under intercropping it with sugarcane system
Table 6.10 Sugarcane cultivated area, assigned area to wheat intercropped with sugarcane and
wheat production
Sugarcane cultivated area
(000 ha)
Assigned area to wheat
(000 ha)
Wheat production
(000 ton)
Minya 15.7
1.6
12.3
Assiut 0.4
0.04
0.4
Sohag 5.8
0.6
4.4
Qena 48.5
4.8
35.3
Luxor 27.8
2.8
20.2
Aswan 35.9
3.6
27.8
Total 134.2
13.4
100.4
6 Wheat Insufficiency and Deficit Irrigation