Growth performance of vegetative barriers
To compare the growth performance of the three
vegetative barriers (sambuta, vetiver and lemongrass), the morphological parameters like mortality,
plant height, and thickness of clump, shoot diameter
and inter-clump space coverage were measured for
five sampled plants from each row of the vegetative
barriers. These growth parameters were recorded in
the last week of October after the harvest of finger
millet. The vegetative barriers were cut at a height of
0.3 m from the ground in the first week of June
during all the study years. To study the rooting
behaviour, all the grasses were planted in the separate
plots (2 9 2 m) adjacent to the experimental plots