Forest intercropping

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Anuebunwa, F.O. 2000. A bio-economic on-farm evaluation of the use of sweet potato for complementary weed control in a yam/maize/egusi/cassava intercrop in pigeon pea hedgerows in the rain forest belt of Nigeria. Biological Agriculture and Horticulture 18(2) 95-102. 

Newly planted rubber trees take 5 to 7 years before they can be tapped and reach their peak production in 10 to 20 years. Of the major global challenges, the environment occupies a dominant place for rubber trees and natural rubber, even on smallholdings where Hevea is usually intercropped with other tree crops or food crops, thereby constituting agro-forests, which nowadays have important secondary functions (maintaining biodiversity, environmental conservation, rehabilitation of degraded zones, etc.) ... 

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