Agronomic performance of no-tillage relay intercropping with maize under smallholder conditions in Central Brazil

Field Crops Research

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 240-251

  Baldé, Alpha Bocar ^a   Scopel, Eric ^a   Affholder, François ^a   Corbeels, Marc ^a,b   Da Silva, Fernando Antonio Macena ^b   Xavier, José Humberto Valadares ^b   Wery, Jacques ^a  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Competition; Cover crops; Land equivalent ratio; Maize intercrop; Relay cropping; Total biomass production

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CERRADO; COVER CROP; CROP YIELD; GROWING SEASON; INTERCROPPING; LEGUME; MAIZE; NATURAL RESOURCE; PHYTOMASS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SMALLHOLDER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; ZERO TILLAGE;

BRAZIL;

ANIMALIA; BRACHIARIA; CAJANUS CAJAN; UROCHLOA BRIZANTHA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 80052678939     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2011.06.017     Document Type: Article

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