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Published by ECHO, this on-line book covers a variety of subjects including agricultural development, multi-purpose trees, farming systems and gardening techniques, intercropping, green manures and cover crops. Free user ID necessary to access site.
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This page contains Agroecology Home's case study intercropping broccoli and lettuce to create complementary patterns of resource use.
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An Agropolis International homepage with links to an intercropping database, organization, publications, and other activities.
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Published in the 1998 Proceedings of the 9th Australian Agronomy Conference, this paper discusses an intercropping study carried out in the Central wheatbelt of Western Australia in 1996.
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This brief paper discusses a three year study conducted by the Crops Research Institute of Kerala, India, looking at interactions between species and their effect on crop yield and soil properties in a cassava agroforestry system.
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This site contains English language summaries of year 2001 traffic on COBERAGRI-L, a Spanish language cover crops mailing list coordinated by the International Cover Crops Clearinghouse (CIDICCO).
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This 2001 Ph.D.-thesis by Henrik Hauggaard-Nielsen (Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (KVL), Copenhagen, Denmark) is available online in pdf format from Riso National Laboratory in Denmark.
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Agroecology Home's Corn-Bean-Squash intercrop page describes the system and its beneficial effects, including allelopathic inhibition of weed growth, nitrogen fixation and increased resistance to insects and disease.
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This is a report of Ghana's legume cover crops, institutions involved in cover crop activities, and promising cover crop systems.
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This section of the proceedings of a workshop held in Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1981 deals with crop mixtures in traditional systems.
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This page contains a lengthy abstract of a literature review on the use of rotation and intercropping systems for weed suppression.
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In pdf format, this paper on alley cropping with long-term tree crops and agricultural crops is part of the proceedings of Wind Erosion: An International Symposium/Workshop held at Kansas State University (USA) in 1997.
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This paper reports economic results from a 2-year on-station evaluation in Ibadan, Nigeria of four systems in which food crops were planted with leguminous cover crops, with and without fertilizer.
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En este trabajo se evaluó el comportamiento de asociaciones y monocultivos de canavalia y maíz en parcelas experimentales, con una densidad constante y proporciones variadas de siembra. Se estimó también la biomasa aérea de maleza, el Indice de Area Foliar (IAF) y la humedad del suelo en la época de máxima biomasa aérea de los cultivos. Agronomía Tropical (1989).
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This is a bibliography list for Pigeon Pea references. It contains hundeds of references and is alphabetized by author. It was put together as part of the project titled "Genetic improvement of pigeonpea and management of intercropping systems in semi arid areas of East Africa".
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This is the homepage for the pigeon pea project run by Gembloux, faculte universitaire des sciences agronomiques. From this page you can link into the project thesis, reference list, and annual reports.
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This 1985 ECHO article posted by Green-seeds.com describes the advantages of green manure crops, their use in intercropping systems, and compares them to composting. It also explores a few green manure species.
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This 1997 article re-published by McGill University (Canada) defines intercropping and examines some of the evidence and speculation about the possible advantages of growing mixed-crops.
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In this ATTRA site, different intercrop systems are discussed including mixed intercropping, strip cropping, and traditional intercropping.
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This brief introduction to intercropping research in India contains two abstracts of papers, and links to other sites related to multiple species cropping.
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This relay cropping home page is a US-based resource with a virtual field day, articles, and extension materials.
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Manual disponible en internet con enlaces a hojas de información y cartillas tecnológicas ilustradas sobre manejo de suelos, agua, y malezas mejoramiento del suelo uso de terrenos en ladera cultivos de cobertura y cultivos asociados.
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This research paper in the Hobart 2001 Proceedings of the 10th Australian Agronomy Conference examines microclimate changes in a maize canopy grown in different row orientations.
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This Ohio State University Extension (USA) site describes modified relay intercropping (MRI), the planting of soybeans into standing wheat 20 to 30 days prior to wheat harvest.
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This research paper explores a field experiment on a pigeon pea based intercropping system carried out from 1991 to 1992 in Nepal.
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A site for the Bean/Cowpea Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) - East Africa explores bean production in Malawi, production systems, and seed multiplication and distribution.
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This brief report describes a study of the productivity of pearl millet-cowpea intercrops in north-east Nigeria between 1991 and 1993.
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This Journal of Extension article describes a double cropping system, MRI, that has been studied to address the major issues of farm profitability and environmental sustainability.
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Indice a los documentos descriptivos de los proyectos actuales del Centro Internacional de Información Sobre Cultivos de Cobertura (CIDICCO). Incluye estudios y documentación de sistemas y prácticas agrícolas con varios cultivos de cobertura y abonos verdes.
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This farmwest.com page provides links to information on relay cropping in British Columbia, Canada.
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This Ohio State University (USA) Extension Factsheet describes the requirements for profitable multiple cropping and wheat and soybean relay cropping systems.
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An investigation of tree - cover crop interactions and soil response in an intercropping system, in which leguminous and grass cover crops were used with birch (red-leaved
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A University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension site discusses choice of crops, weed control, and other cultural practices for doublecropping - growing two crops on the same field in the same year.
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This 1996 University of Nebraska (USA) Cooperative Extension publication covers crop variety selection, weed control, and other cultural practices for relay intercropping soybeans into winter wheat or oats.
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This paper explores how vegetable growers in Texas (USA) use crop rotation to increase the productivity of their farms over years of intensive cultivation.
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