This 4:6 intercropping system increased the economic benefit of the land by 26% over the corn monoculture – and this was after accounting for fertilizer costs, seed costs, machinery use ...

Rubber has always been the primary product ... the researchers looked at one key land management change: a technique called intercropping that involves cultivating other valuable plants in the ...

Intercropping of medicinal plants in rubber plantations has gained momentum with leading ayurvedic medicine manufacturing companies coming forward to take up the project by supplying necessary ...

the Rubber Board has embarked on a scheme to promote intercropping of medicinal plants in rubber plantations with the support of Ayurveda companies. Officials said here recently that the programme ...

Intercropping is an old practice, where two or more crops are grown at the same time on a single field. This farming practice was very popular before the 1940’s in the USA.

For the first time, the agriculture department and Rubber Board will jointly initiate intercropping in 20,000 hectares that are under rubber plantation with the help of rubber producers' societies ...

The present system of sole cropping has failed to meet domestic needs of small farmers. Monoculture is associated with several problems that intercropping can solve. Intercropping has the ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is likely to introduce an intercropping system in coming years by following a Chinese model in an effort to protect its vital cotton crop from leaf curl virus attack.

This new intercropping system is expected to add chickpea production on the basis of ensuring the existing output of wheat in the same area of land. According to Pakistani postdoc at Sichuan ...