Год выпуска: 2013 Автор: Reuben Chumba Bulungu Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 148 ISBN: 9783659374104
Описание
The potential of Agroforestry (AF) systems for sustainable rural livelihood has widely been demonstrated, but the challenge of persistently low agricultural productivity has impacted negatively on farm incomes and food security in Kenya. Farmers have not been exposed to AF technologies with tangible economic benefits from enriched fallows like artemisia shrubs that have medicinal value as an intercrop with maize. This book describes the concept of Intercropping maize and artemisia as an AF practice suitable for application by small to medium scale farmers and other stakeholders in rural development. Several parameters are used comparatively to evaluate yield advantages from selected spacing regimes,so as to form the basis for recommending suitable planting patterns depending on levels of intensification desired by the farmers. Intercropping in this context demonstrates production for income and food security after manipulating component interactions and value addition to respective...
