Association of hevea with other tree crops can be more profitable than hevea monocrop during first 12 years

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 578-586

  Snoeck, Didier ^a   Lacote, Régis ^a   Kéli, Jules ^b   Doumbia, Amadou ^c   Chapuset, Thierry ^a   Jagoret, Patrick ^d   Gohet, Éric ^a  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b Centre National de Recherche Agronomique Abidjan   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^c HEVEGO   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^d Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement   (France)

Author keywords

Citrus lemon; Coffea canephora; Hevea brasiliensis; Income; Intercropping; Theobroma cacao

Indexed keywords

CITRUS LEMON; COFFEA CANEPHORA; HEVEA BRASILIENSIS; INCOME; INTERCROPPING; THEOBROMA CACAO;

COFFEE; COMMERCE; COMPOSTING; CROPS; ECONOMICS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROFITABILITY;

FORESTRY;

COCOA; COFFEE; CROP YIELD; FRUIT; GUIDELINE; HEDGEROW; INCOME; INTERCROPPING; PRODUCTIVITY; PROFITABILITY; RUBBER;

CITRUS; COFFEE; COMMERCE; COMPOSTING; ECONOMICS; FARM CROPS; FORESTRY; INCOMES; PLANTS; PROFITABILITY;

COTE D'IVOIRE;

CITRUS; CITRUS LIMON; COFFEA CANEPHORA; HEVEA; HEVEA BRASILIENSIS; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 84865469537     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2012.07.053     Document Type: Article

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