The Ecology of Intercropping Paperback / softback
by John H. Vandermeer
Paperback / softback
Description
The practice of growing two or more crops together is widespread throughout the tropics and is becoming increasingly practised in temperate agriculture.
The benefits of nutrient exchange, reduced weed competition and pathogen control can generate substantial improvements in growth and yield.
In this book John Vandermeer, a leading worker on the subject, shows how classical ecological principles, especially those relating to competition and population ecology, can be applied to intercropping.
Despite the large amount of research activity directed towards the subject over the last 20 years, the practice of intercropping has, until now, received very little serious academic attention.
The Ecology of Intercropping is unique in approaching the question of intercropping from a theoretical point of view.
In addition the details of the approach will take as their starting point well-accepted ecological theory.
Using this basis the author shows how the approach can be used to design and evaluate intercropping systems to improve agricultural yields.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:20/08/1992
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521346894
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:20/08/1992
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521346894
