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Title EVALUATION OF MAIZE, COWPEA, CASSAVA AND SWEET POTATO INTERCROP SYSTEMS
Full text http://dspace.knust.edu.gh/dspace/handle/123456789/879
Date 1991
Author(s) ANKOMAH, A.B.
Abstract Various intercrop systems involving maize, cowpea, cassava and sweet potato grown in the field in the semi deciduous forest zone of Ghana were evaluated based on the monetary returns (net incomes) from yields using the 1987 farm gate prices could change with time, the evaluation of the systems in this study would still be valid for as long as the relative importance of the crops (status of the crops with respect to each other) remained unchanged. Maize spaced at 1.0 x1.0m three plants per hill and intercropped with cassava also spaced at 1.0 x1.0m in the maize rows was adjudged the best system. It was suggested that this system, commonly practiced by peasant farmers in the semi deciduous forest zone of Ghana, be encouraged and assisted with the use of fertilizer, so that the same pieces of land can be continuously cropped
Publisher KNUST
Identifier 0855-0395
Repository Kumasi - Kwame Nkrumah University
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