BetaBetaDataset
To evaluate the impact of intercropping on crop productivity and drought resistance in Tanzania.
The study was conducted from 2019-01 to 2020-01 by the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF). This dataset was generated from the research conducted to evaluate the impact of intercropping on crop productivity and drought resistance in terms of crop yield, whole-system yield based on nutritional yields and Land Equivalent Ratio, and yield loss due to drought. The experiment was conducted at a previously established ICRAF field trial in Manyusi village, Kongwa District, Dodoma, Tanzania.
Data contains the on-site field rainfall, air temperature and relative humidity, and photosynthetically active radiation, crop grain biomass, gravimetric water content, and soil properties
Data was collected through remote sensing and laboratory analysis. The drought was imposed in the field using rainout shelters on five cropping systems with and without fertilizer application in the 2019 cropping season. The treatment factors and levels were as follows: cropping system (sole maize, sole pigeonpea, maize-pigeonpea, maize-gliricidia, and maize-pigeonpea-gliricidia, fertilization (fertilized, unfertilized), and water (ambient rainfall, drought).