'Todo ano' bunching onion and 'Lisa' parsley were studied in mono and inter-cropping system arranged in a randomized complete block experimental design with three treatments and eight replications. Bunching onion was propagated by cuttings and parsley by seeds. Both crops were harvested 90 days after the beginning of propagation. Plant height, copse diameter and dried and fresh mass yield were evaluated. Also diameter and number of shoots of bunching onion plants and height of parsley plants were evaluated. Averages of bunching onion (33.50 cm) and parsley (27.11 cm) height, of bunching onion shoot diameters (0.42 cm) and of cut height of parsley (6.41 cm) plants were not affected by treatments. The greatest average of copse diameter was obtained in plants under mono-cropping system, with differences of 6.13 cm for bunching onion and 2.85 cm for parsley in relation to those under inter-cropping system. Bunching onion plants inter-cropped with parsley had a significant increase of 0.54 millions of shoots ha-1 in relation to those under mono-cropping system. Average yield of bunching onion and parsley plants under mono-cropping system presented an increase of 1.32 and 2.42 t ha-1 of fresh mass and of 0.20 and 0.24 t ha-1 of dried mass, respectively, in relation to those in inter-cropping system. Land equivalent ratios for bunching onion and parsley inter-cropping system were 1.41 and 1.50 considering dried and fresh mass yield, respectively. Total gross income showed that bunching onion inter-cropped was better with increases of 25.06% (R$ 7,830.00) and 74.93% (R$ 16.740.00) per hectare when related to gross income of bunching onion or parsley in mono-cropping system, respectively.
Allium fistulosum; Petroselinum crispum; plant arrangements; yield; income
