An Edaphic Evaluation of a Mixed Cropping System Based on Cocoa Grown in Combination with Oil Palm in Southwestern Nigeria

Biological Agriculture and Horticulture

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 117-128

  Ekanade, Olusegun ^a  

^a OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCOA; CROPPING PRACTICE; PRODUCTIVITY; SOIL FERTILITY;

GAMBIA; NIGERIA;

ELAEIS GUINEENSIS; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 0032407680     PISSN: 01448765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01448765.1998.9755227     Document Type: Article

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