Intercropping is the best method to make some additional income from 1 to 2 years of plantation. Inter crops like Wheat, green gram, peas and sunflower are best suited. Some of the crops include Mash, Moong, Wheat and Gram etc. In the kharif season, crops like moong can be taken as intercrop. Wheat, pea, Gram is taken as Rabi crop during the non-bearing season.
Cropping patterns
Which is the best intercrop for Custard apple?
Intercropping with some legumes, peas, beans and marigold flowers are commonly taken by the growers. In the initial years of custard apple planting, intercrops like Groundnut, minor millets, Linseed and gram should be grown. Legumes, peas and beans and marigold plants are intercropped with custard apple plants to generate extra income and to keep a check on the weeds. During the pre-bearing period, short growing crop like Groundnut, Ragi, Bajra, wheat, pulses and vegetables can be profitably grown in the interspaces.
Which is the best intercrop for Mosambi?
An intercropping trial was conducted on a 3-year-old mosambi sweet orange orchard planted at about 5m×5m spacing and growing under rainfed laterite soil to identify the suitable and profitable intercrops. The intercrops grown with mosambi were cowpea, ridge gourd, groundnut, radish, black gram, okra, Amaranthus and cluster bean. Interspaces are made in mosambi crop for growing nitrogen fixing crop until the plants start flowering during the initial 3 years of plantation. Green gram, Black gram or any other legume crop like Groundnut, vegetables like beans etc are cultivated to be used as nitrogen fixation crops.
Which is the best intercrop for papaya?
In papaya, intercropping leguminous crops after non leguminous ones, shallow rooted crops after deep rotted ones are beneficial, no intercrops are taken after the on set off the flowering stage in papaya. To keep the plot free of weeds during the pre-bearing age of first to 6 months after planting short duration vegetable crops can be grown as intercrops. Once papaya starts bearing it is difficult to grow intercrops because of the shade. Papaya can be grown as an intercrop in fruit plantation of Mango, Litchi and sapota etc. Also, it can be grown as an intercrop in coconut and Arecanut plantations, where there is no shade in the inter spaces.
Which is the best intercrop for Banana?
Intercrop can easily be grown in Banana plantations at the earlier stage of crop growth. In some parts of India, mixed cropping also is practiced in Banana. Planting of Banana can be followed by the planting of some intercrops like Brinjal, Turmeric, chillies, bhindi, radish, Cauliflower, Cabbage, Spinach and maize etc, depending on climatic conditions. Some farmers used to intercrop elephant foot yam in Banana orchard and get additional income. Also, farmers grow Elephant Foot yam, green gram and maize in Banana orchard.
What is Monoculture of Modern farming methods?
The monoculture farming method is the raising of a single crop within a specified area. Most of the commercial farms in the United States are now in monoculture nature with crops like corn and soy taking top billing. This is in contrast to the traditional technique of farming, which relied on multiple crops being planted within a specific area. Many indoor farms growing medicinal herbs and flowers are measured to be monoculture farms.
Monoculture is the agricultural practice of producing as single crop, single plant or livestock species, variety or breed in a field or farming system at a time. Monoculture farming is widely used in both industrial farming and organic farming and has allowed increased efficiency in planting and harvest.
What is Diversified crop rotation?
Diversified crop rotation is required for providing food for the soil microorganisms along with nutrients utilization by the crops in rotation which are present in different soil layers due to leaching. It can be attained by rotating deep rooted crops with shallow rooted crops. The crop rotations which mainly involve legumes are beneficial for biological nitrogen fixation, reducing pest infestation by disruption of the pest’s life cycle and also improving biodiversity.
What is container gardening?
This is a practice of growing all varieties of plants in containers instead of planting them on the ground. The container used for the purpose of growing plants can be anything that is enclosed, small and portable such as a tub, basket or barrel. Sometimes large pots are also used for container gardening.
What is hedgerow intercropping?
The practice of growing annual crops in between the rows of trees as an alternative method of fallow system is termed as hedgerow intercropping. The combination of trees and crops complement each other rather than competing. The trees create a favourable micro climate for the crops to survive by shielding them from drying winds.
How many olive trees can be planted per acre?
The traditional spacing between the olive trees is approximately 7 m or 30 ft. This spacing is no longer used except in regions that are deserted dry farm regions. The high-density planting can accommodate 200 to 350 trees per acre i.e., approximately 494 to 865 plants per hectare. The high-density system of planting can be used with any variety of olive.
There is one super high density planting system practiced for olive cultivation, where the spacing between plants is 5× 13 ft. This system can accommodate approximately 2083 trees per hectare.