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 neutral, with production systems ranging from mechanization and irrigation to zero-tillage and no addition of inorganic fertilizers and highly flexible in scale and diversity of possible
65 pages, illustrated, tables
Publication Details
- Published: 1992
- Publisher: Oregon State University
- Dewey Decimal: 631.58
- ECHO Library: 631.58 JAN