SciDevNet: Growing leguminous trees on maize farms -- a form of agroforestry -- can boost and stabilise maize yields, a 12-year study in Malawi and Zambia has found. The researchers behind the study, from the Kenya-based World Agroforestry Centre and the University of Pretoria, South Africa, say this is the first analysis of long-term crop yield trends in cereal-legume agroforestry systems in Southern Africa. Maize is a common staple in the region and is grown in more than half of cultivated land in countries...
URL: http://www.scidev.net/en/climate-change-and-energy/news/intercropping-boosts-maize-yields-by-50-per-cent-.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_climatechangeandenergy
Enclosure: https://www.agronomy.org/publications/aj/abstracts/104/5/1392
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