Profitability of alley farming with and without fallow in southwest Nigeria

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cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2NG
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1017/s001447970002442xen
cg.issn0014-4797en
cg.issue3en
cg.journalExperimental Agricultureen
cg.subject.ilriCROPSen
cg.subject.ilriSOILSen
cg.volume30en
dc.contributor.authorJabbar, M.A.en
dc.contributor.authorLarbi, Asamoahen
dc.contributor.authorReynolds, L.en
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-06T07:00:53Zen
dc.date.available2013-05-06T07:00:53Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/28565
dc.titleProfitability of alley farming with and without fallow in southwest Nigeriaen
dcterms.abstractThe 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.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.available2008-10-03
dcterms.bibliographicCitationExperimental Agriculture;30(3): 319-327en
dcterms.extentp. 319-327en
dcterms.issued1994-07
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dcterms.subjectalley croppingen
dcterms.subjectprofitabilityen
dcterms.subjectfallow systemsen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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