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The benefits and productivity of cereal-legume intercropping with and without supplementary irrigation in the semi-arid highlands of Tigray, Ethiopia

A. Araya · G. Girmay · E. Solomon · T. Yemane

Low soil fertility and limited water availability are the major hampering factors to crop production in the semi arid highlands of Ethiopia. Thus poverty and hunger is evident to the ever increasing population in the country. Comprehensiv…

RUF-36332 2016 CC BY 4.0 20 Oct 2016

Potential Role of Cereal-Legume Intercropping Systems in Integrated Soil Fertility Management in Small holder Farming Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa

J.M.M. Matusso · M.W. Mucheru-Muna · J.N. Mugwe

The sub-Saharan Africa’s population is growing exponentially and it has to fulfill its food and nutrition requirement. An attractive strategy for increasing productivity and labour utilization per unit area of available land is to intensif…

RUF-32039 2012 CC BY 4.0 13 May 2014