The intercrops are practiced by small farmers aiming to favor not only the diet and the income of their families, but also to decrease the risks of production losses. It was aimed with this work to study the influence of cotton and peanut cultivars and relative planting times as intercroping, being verified the components of the production, vegetable productivity, as well as the quality of the products. The experiment was conducted in Missão Velha, Ceará State, Brazil, at Cotton Experimental Field of Embrapa in the agricultural year of 2002. Inall 20 treatments were tested with 4 repetitions, in a randomized block with 2 x 2 x 4 + 2 + 2 factorial, the factors being two cultivars of cotton (BRS 186 - precocious 3 and BRS 201), two cultivars of peanut (L7 and BR-1), four planting times (0; 7; 14 and 21 days) plus the isolated controls of the two cultivrs of cotton and peanut crops. The technological characteristics of the cotton fiber practically did not suffer influence of the intercroping, however, the yield of both cotton and peanut crops decrease as a function of cultivation system due to established competition between the two crops.
Gossypium hirsutum; Arachis hypogaea; intercrop; productivity; competition
