Effects Of Intercropping Maize (zea Mays) With Butternuts (cucurbita Moschata) At Varying Butternut Population Levels On Maize Growth, Yield And Weed Supression

ABSTRACT  Intercropping is a cultural technique which gives crops a competitive advantage on weeds therefore contributes to weed management. There is need to choose the plant population which results in weed suppression whilst not negatively affecting the component crops yield. The experiment was set in a Randomised Complete Block Design with 5 treatments which are sole maize crop, maize-butternut intercrops at butternut densities of (30%, 40% and 50% of maize population which is 11110, 13889 and 18518plants/ha respectively) and sole butternut crop. Data on maize plant height, maize grain yiel…