A Role for Intercropping in Modern Agriculture
- 1 May 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 35 (5) , 286-291
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1309927
Abstract
The benefits of intercropped crop production, as opposed to monocultures, are presented. Reduced fertilizer and pesticide use, companion plant compensation, mechanization and aspects of insect, pest and weed control are discussed.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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