Interplanting banana at high densities with immature rubber crop for improved water use

Agronomie

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 45-54

  Rodrigo, Vitharanage Harischandra Lakshman ^a   Stirling, Clare Maeve ^b   Teklehaimanot, Zewge ^c   Samarasekera, Renuka Kusum ^a   Pathirana, Pathiranage Dharmasiri ^a  

^a Rubber Research Institute of Sri Lanka   (Sri Lanka)

^b Stirling Thorne Associates   (United Kingdom)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agro forestry; Density; Plantation; Water use

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; INTERCROPPING; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; FRUIT; PLANTATION; RUBBER; SPACING; TRANSPIRATION;

EID: 15944380804     PISSN: 02495627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/agro:2004054     Document Type: Article

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