World population is growing exponentially and agricultural production must meet the needs of the food. An attractive strategy for increasing productivity per unit area of land available is to intensify land use. Given that this strategy...
moreWorld population is growing exponentially and agricultural production must meet the needs of the food. An attractive strategy for increasing productivity per unit area of land available is to intensify land use. Given that this strategy creates a number of problems in terms of the environment and yet can not meet the food needs of humanity on planet Earth, must be found alternative approaches to growing plants. One of them is intercropping - growing two or more crops in the same space at the same time. This system leads to an increase in productivity per unit area of land through better use of resources, to reduce the risk, reduce competition from weeds and leads to the stabilization of yields. Several important factors affecting the development of this system as well as a selection of compatible crops, vegetation length crop density and time of sowing/planting, as well as socio-economic status of farmers and regions. As a numeric indicator of efficient use of land commonly used lan...
