Resources Tagged: Alley Cropping

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  1. A System to Sustain Soil Productivity

    2004-01-20 When selecting a hedgerow species for alley cropping, keep in mind that leaves should readily decompose when applied to the soil.
    Alley Cropping Agroforestry

  2. Is alley cropping right for your situation?

    2008-07-20 Thisagroforestry technique has been widely promoted in agriculture development programs throughout the tropics. Alley cropping (AC) is the practice of growing food crops in alleys between hedgerows of trees or shrubs, which are regularly coppiced (severely pruned). Prunings are placed on the soil...
    Agroforestry Alley Cropping

  3. Alley Cropping to Sustain Yields

    1995-06-19 Alley cropping is an agroforestry technique which has been widely promoted in agriculture development programs throughout the tropics. Many studies report increased harvests in alley crops versus control plots without trees. A recent report from the International Centre for Research in...
    Alley Cropping Agroforestry Legume

  4. Alley Cropping: a System to Sustain Soil Productivity

    2004-01-20 When selecting a hedgerow species for alley cropping, keep in mind that leaves should readily decompose when applied to the soil.
    Alley Cropping Agroforestry

  5. Alley Cropping Revisited

    2004-07-01 Alley cropping was not intended to be a way to increase yields/acre. The purpose was to shorten or eliminate fallow periods.
    Alley Cropping Agroforestry

  6. Intercropping and the scientific basis of traditional agriculture

    This book is a pioneering, comparative study of the practice of intercropping (growing two or more crops at once in the same field). Innis's meticulous analysis of the scientific base of different traditional forms of agriculture in Jamaica, Nepal and India, is at the forefront of the search for...
    Farming-Tropics Alley Cropping

  7. Systemes d'agrosylviculture

    Dans de nombreuses régions tropicales, la surexploitation des terres causée par l'expansion démographique a entraîné le raccourcissement des périodes de jachère, ce qui cause une perte rapide d'éléments nutritifs, la dégradation du sol, une baisse de rendement des cultures et l'invasion...
    French language Alley Cropping

  8. Productivity of Moringa oleifera Augmented with Intercropped Tropical Legumes

    Authors: T.N. Motis, J.M. Longfellow, A.D. Jani, B.J. Lingbeek, C.J. D'Aiuto, J.C.J. Bergen Keywords: Moringa oleifera, intercropping, legumes,Vigna unguiculata,Canivalia ensiformis,Cajanus cajan,Lablab purpureus, alley cropping DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2017.1158.11 Abstract: In Limpopo Province...
    Moringa oleifera Intercropping Legumes Vigna unguiculata Canivalia Ensiformis Cajanus cajan Lablab purpureus Alley Cropping

  9. Alley Cropping

    1992-01-01 Alley cropping can be best classified as an improved bush-fallow agroforestry system which holds the following advantages - combined cropping and fallow phases, enabling sustained continuous crop production, rapid, effective soil fertiity regeneration with more efficient fallow species, input...
    Alley Cropping

  10. La Culture en couloirs/ un substitut d'avenir a la culture itinerante Alley Cropping/ a future substitute for shifting culture

    Dans le but d'insérer les aspects positifs de ce dernier au sein d'un systéme de culture continue, les scientifiques de l'IITA ont élaboré un mode de production destiné à l'agriculture tropicale, dénommé culture en couloirs. Il s'agit d'un système agro-forestier impliquant la plantation de...
    Alley Cropping