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Use of a Systematic Spacing Design as an Aid to the Study of Inter-cropping: Some General Considerations*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

P. A. Huxley  and
Z. Maingu
P. A. Huxley
Affiliation:
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Z. Maingu
Affiliation:
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Summary

Assessment of the relative advantages or otherwise of inter-cropping compared with sole cropping needs to be done over a wide range of plant populations. Systematic spacing designs lend themselves to this, and the paper discusses the interpretation of the yield/plant population curves which can be so derived.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 1978 , pp. 49 - 56
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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