Striga hermonthica(Del.)Benth is ranked as the number one constraint to maize productivity in Eastern Uganda.The use of trap crops is one of the control measures suggested for farmers with limited resources in Striga ...
Intercropping is a production system that involves the growing of two or more crops simultaneously on the same piece of land.In intercropping,the component species are not necessarily sown at the same time and their h...
An experiment was conducted during Kharif seasons of 2009 and 2010 on sandy loam soil of West Bengal, India to evaluate the productivity and economic viability of maize + legume intercropping systems in additive as w...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the cultivation of perennial herbaceous legumes on weed control and yield of the coffee crop in the Cerrado. The experimental design was a randomized complete block with four repl...
Competition for solar radiation between plants grown in multi-species cropping systems can severely limit crop production of individual species within that system. There are various approaches for modeling light inter...
A field study was conducted at CRIN Uhonmora Substation, Edo State in Derived Guinea Savanna Zone of Nigeria between 2007 and 2008. The experiment determined influence of intercropping cocoa with rice and plantain at ...
In a long term study photosynthetically active radiation was monitored for three rainy seasons to measure the effects of hedgerow intercropping in rotation with maize and cowpea in a senna/siamea and panicum/grass str...