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    Yield of plantain grown under different tree densities and slash and mulch versus slash and burn management in an agrisilvicultural system in southern Cameroon

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    Date
    2002
    Author
    Norgrove, L.
    Hauser, S.
    Type
    Journal Article
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    Deforestation in the humid tropics poses an increasing threat to natural forests and future timber supplies. Smallholder slash and burn farming and timber extraction are the major causes of deforestation in the Congo basin. Therefore, the feasibility of an alternative to slash and burn, the combination of timber tree production (silviculture) with that of shade-tolerant plantains was tested. French plantain cv. ‘Essong’ (Musa sp. AAB) was grown as an understorey crop, with various crop management treatments: burning; mulching; and intercropping with tannia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium (L.) Schott) under two imposed timber stand densities (TSDs), replicated in four blocks, in a 6-year-old Terminalia ivorensis (A) Chev. timber plantation in southern Cameroon. No fertiliser, dressing, pesticide or herbicide was applied. Cumulative plant-crop (PC) yields at 1000 days after planting were higher in the low TSD than in the high TSD. The best treatment, low TSD, intercropped and mulched, produced 11.7 Mg ha−1 in the plant-crop. Losses were predominantly uprooting of plants.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-4290(02)00134-X
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    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/3798
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    https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-4290(02)00134-X
    IITA Subjects
    Forestry; Soil Health; Climate Change; Plant Production; Plantain; Banana
    Agrovoc Terms
    Agroforestry; Burning; Humid Tropics; Leaf Production Rate; Mulching; Tree Density; Deforestation; Smallholders; Slash And Burn Farming; Plantains; Intercropping
    Regions
    Africa; Central Africa
    Countries
    Cameroon
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