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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

dc.contributor.authorNorgrove, L.
dc.contributor.authorHauser, S.
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-04T11:21:29Z
dc.date.available2019-12-04T11:21:29Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.identifier.citationNorgrove, L. & Hauser, S. (2002). Yield of plantain grown under different tree densities and ‘slash and mulch’versus ‘slash and burn’management in an agrisilvicultural system in southern Cameroon. Field Crops Research, 78(2-3), 185-195.
dc.identifier.issn0378-4290
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/3798
dc.description.abstractDeforestation 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.
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectAgroforestry
dc.subjectBurning
dc.subjectHumid Tropics
dc.subjectLeaf Production Rate
dc.subjectMulching
dc.subjectTree Density
dc.subjectDeforestation
dc.subjectSmallholders
dc.subjectSlash And Burn Farming
dc.subjectPlantains
dc.subjectIntercropping
dc.titleYield of plantain grown under different tree densities and slash and mulch versus slash and burn management in an agrisilvicultural system in southern Cameroon
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.description.versionPeer Review
cg.contributor.affiliationKings College London
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionCentral Africa
cg.coverage.countryCameroon
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research institute
cg.iitasubjectForestry
cg.iitasubjectSoil Health
cg.iitasubjectClimate Change
cg.iitasubjectPlant Production
cg.iitasubjectPlantain
cg.iitasubjectBanana
cg.accessibilitystatusLimited Access
local.dspaceid95953
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-4290(02)00134-X


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