The experiment was conducted in Randomized Complete Block Design with sole pigeon pea and other crops and their combinations. The yield advantage was more in intercropping than all sole systems, though the pigeon pea yield was reduced when it was intercropped with rice. Pigeon pea is a wide row spaced crop and needs intercropping for better profit and proper resource utilization. Pigeon pea grows slowly in the early months of the crop establishment and does not have shading effect on the associatively grown intercrop species. Therefore, pigeon pea is a suitable crop species for intercropping.
Farmers use pigeon pea as a multipurpose crop.
Pigeon pea is also used in crop rotation for soil fertility improvement and it is intercropped with other crop species to fulfill the basic needs of farmers. This study was proposed to find out the influence of intercrop species on the productivity of pigeon pea and determine the most profitable pigeon pea based intercropping system. The experiment was conducted in randomized complete block design with 4 replications. The plot size was 27 m 2 with 4.5 m breadth and 6 m. length. The sampling area was 6 m 2 with 1.5 m breadths and 4 M length.