Profitability of alley farming with and without fallow in southwest Nigeria
The profitabilities of three land use systems in the humid zone of southwest Nigeria are compared using a capital budgeting procedure combining on-station and on-farm experimental data. The systems are: non-alley farming with fallow; alley farming with fallow; and continous alley farming. The result...
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1994
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| author | Jabbar, M.A. Larbi, Asamoah Reynolds, L. |
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| description | The profitabilities of three land use systems in the humid zone of southwest Nigeria are compared using a capital budgeting procedure combining on-station and on-farm experimental data. The systems are: non-alley farming with fallow; alley farming with fallow; and continous alley farming. The results indicate that: continous alley cropping is more profitable than non-alley or alley cropping with fallow; short fallowing in alley cropping reduces the rate of mining soil fertility and thus helps preserve future productivity; alley farming with small ruminants enhances the profitability of alley systems and increases their advantage over the non-alley system; and alley systems remain profitable even when terminal clearing costs are internalized in the current project cycle. |
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| spelling | CGSpace285652024-11-15T08:52:40Z Profitability of alley farming with and without fallow in southwest Nigeria Jabbar, M.A. Larbi, Asamoah Reynolds, L. alley cropping profitability fallow systems The profitabilities of three land use systems in the humid zone of southwest Nigeria are compared using a capital budgeting procedure combining on-station and on-farm experimental data. The systems are: non-alley farming with fallow; alley farming with fallow; and continous alley farming. The results indicate that: continous alley cropping is more profitable than non-alley or alley cropping with fallow; short fallowing in alley cropping reduces the rate of mining soil fertility and thus helps preserve future productivity; alley farming with small ruminants enhances the profitability of alley systems and increases their advantage over the non-alley system; and alley systems remain profitable even when terminal clearing costs are internalized in the current project cycle. 1994-07 2013-05-06T07:00:53Z 2013-05-06T07:00:53Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/28565 en Limited Access Cambridge University Press Experimental Agriculture;30(3): 319-327 |
| spellingShingle | alley cropping profitability fallow systems Jabbar, M.A. Larbi, Asamoah Reynolds, L. Profitability of alley farming with and without fallow in southwest Nigeria |
| title | Profitability of alley farming with and without fallow in southwest Nigeria |
| title_full | Profitability of alley farming with and without fallow in southwest Nigeria |
| title_fullStr | Profitability of alley farming with and without fallow in southwest Nigeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Profitability of alley farming with and without fallow in southwest Nigeria |
| title_short | Profitability of alley farming with and without fallow in southwest Nigeria |
| title_sort | profitability of alley farming with and without fallow in southwest nigeria |
| topic | alley cropping profitability fallow systems |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/28565 |
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