On-farm evaluation of yield and economic benefit of short term maize legume intercropping systems under conservation agriculture in Malawi
By A. Ngwira, J. Aune, Symon Mkwinda. 2012
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Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Strategy and Management
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- Adoption and Impacts of Sustainable Agricultural Practices on Maize Yields and Incomes: Evidence from Rural Zambia (2016, background): “Low soil fertility is one of the major constraints to agricultural productivity in Africa (Vanlauwe and Giller, 2006; Beedy et al., 2010).”
- Intercropping—Evaluating the Advantages to Broadacre Systems (2021, background): “An economic advantage of intercropping exists if the GM from intercropping is higher than that of monocropping [12,50,54].”
- Nitrogen fertilization reduces yield declines following no-till adoption (2015, background): “…example, because farmers in tropical/subtropical regions are, on average, poorer than those in temperate regions (Sachs et al., 2001), there may be reduced access to the specialized equipment and external inputs that often accompany successful NT farming (Powlson et al., 2014; Ngwira et al., 2012).”
- Crop Diversification for Improved Weed Management: A Review (2021, background): “It is commonly used in countries with low-input (high-labor) and resource-limited agricultural systems on a small piece of land [81,82].”
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- Improving intercropping: a synthesis of research in agronomy, plant physiology and ecology. (2015, background): “Intercropping is often undertaken by farmers practising low-input (high labour), low-yield farming on small parcels of land (Ngwira et al., 2012).”
- The farm-level economics of conservation agriculture for resource-poor farmers (2014, background): “Ngwira et al. (2012a) also found higher variable costs under CA in Malawi.”