Tree crop based agroforestry in Nigeria: A checklist of crops intercropped with cocoa

Reference Type Journal Article
Year of Publication
1990
Contributors Author: M. A. O. Oladokun
Journal
Agroforestry Systems
Volume
11
Issue
3
Pagination
227-241
Date Published
09/1990
Language
English
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Abstract
A survey of cocoa farmers in Bendel, Ogun, Ondo and Oyo States of Nigeria, carried out in 1985, showed that almost all the farmers intercropped other crops with cocoa. The intercrops included food crops such as plantain (92.3), cocoyam (85.7%), cassava (51.3%), yam (41.3%), maize (38.9%), melon (31.4%), cowpea (28.6%) and pineapple (26.0%) and tree crops such as oil palm (71.5%), kola (67.3%), coffee (41.0%), coconut (7.9%) and citrus (7.2%). Other crops are ewe-iran (Sarcophrynium brachystachys) and ewe-gbodogi (Megaphrynium macrostachyum) (45.2%), african walnut (Tetracarpidium conophorum) (42.2%), aligator pepper (Aframomum melegueta) (31.6%), and iyere (Piper guinense) (20.2%). Guava, mango, pawpaw and vegetables such as celosia, okra and solanum occur in cocoa plots at rather low frequencies. As many as six or more other crops can be intercropped with cocoa at the same time.
URL
https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00045901
DOI
10.1007/BF00045901
Journal Abbreviation
Agroforest Syst
ISSN
0167-4366; 1572-9680
Short Title
Tree crop based agroforestry in Nigeria