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alley cropping

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alley cropping
n.
A method of planting in which rows of a crop are sown between rows or hedges of nitrogen-fixing plants, the roots of which enrich the soil.


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24) Other practices also increase fertility Estimates of N availability from leguminous cover crops, in the study, exclude other practices for increasing biologically fixed N, like intercropping, (35) alley cropping with leguminous trees, (36) livestock rotation with annual crops, (37) and inoculation of soil with free-living N-fixers (38)--practices that may add considerable N fertility to plant and animal production.
Included in the book will be chapters on the benefits and challenges of agroforestry, the principles of plant, water soil interactions, species selection, woodlot design, break-of-slope plantations, alley cropping, the placement of scattered trees and relationships with pasture production.
Alley cropping combines trees with adjacent agricultural or horticultural crops.
 
 
 
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