Testing the performance of banana cropping systems on farmers' holdings in the Windward Islands.
1985
Rao M.M. | Murray H. | Edmunds J.E.
In on-farm trials in St. Vincent and Grenada intercropping bananas with cowpeas, dasheen (Colocasia antiquorum), groundnuts, maize, eddoes (Colocasia esculenta), tannia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium) and snap beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) were compared with the farmers' existing practices (banana + eddoe, dasheen or tannia). The cropping systems did not significantly influence yield, except with inclusion of groundnuts which increased yield, cropping cycle and leaf nutrient content of banana. Banana + 2 rows tannia + 3 rows snap beans was economically superior (154 %) to the control. The fast growing cowpea depressed yield of eddoe and dasheen due to shading and competition.
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