Intercropping

Intercropping involves planting two crops simultaneously (e.g., a nitrogen-fixing legume crop with a grain crop).

AP Environmental Science Chapter 12- Biological 2008

Intercropping with seasonal food crops would make marginal lands more profitable.

3. India 1997

· Intercropping with herbaceous soil-building legumes such as stylosanthes or macroptilium; or

5. Pearl Millet: Subsistence Types 1996

Intercropping with sugar cane is practiced on a large scale and is responsible for 77% of the potatoes, 60% of the groundnuts and 50% of the maize (corn) produced in the country.

5: Farming systems and gardening techniques 1996

Intercropping of tuber and rhizome crops within mixed plantation of young lac hosts.

Chapter 10 1996

Intercropping on land previously used solely for cane is almost the same as finding new land.

5: Farming systems and gardening techniques 1996

Intercropping of tuber and rhizome crops within mixed plantation of young lac hosts.

Chapter 8 1996

Intercropping of sugarcane on such lands allows the production of some maize without leading to soil erosion.

5: Farming systems and gardening techniques 1996

Intercropping and rotation cropping technologies developed by Brazilian sugar research laboratories have also made it possible for sugar plantations to increase food production.

Chapter 7 1993

Intercropping is an age-old practice that has been used by subsistence farmers in the tropics to suppress pests and to increase crop yield.

1. Designing integrated pest management for sustainable and productive futures. 1992