O cacaueiro (Theobroma cacao L.) em sistemas agrossilviculturais
The cacao tree (Theobroma cacao L.) is normally cultivated in intimate association with other species like food crops and taller trees, which provide provisional and permanent shade, respectively to protect the crop during its juvenile and productive phase. When cacao is combined with species which render additional outputs of economic use and/or introduce ecological benefits into the system, the practice is designated agrosylviculture. Several multiple land management systems have been used with cacao as the primary crop. Except for a few cases, however, such systems have been empirically developed and some of the major advantages of agroforestry still remain poorly exploited in cacao cultivation. The search for associated species capable of providing both adequate shade and valuable products to increase the farmer's income, for example, has been one of the most attractive ways of achieving advancements in the economics of production technology. Despite this fact, it is still recognized that there exists and unlimited opportunity for innovative research in this field. This paper is not intended as a review on agroforestry or cacao cultivation. It is only an attempt to select some pieces of information and proposals which will hopefully be relevant to those willing to develop more efficient agroforestry or agrosylvicultural cropping systems for cacao.
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| Format: | biblioteca |
| Language: | por |
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Brasilia (Brasil), Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento,
1989
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| Subjects: | THEOBROMA CACAO, AGROFORESTERIA, SOMBRA, CULTIVO MULTIPLE, CERCA VIVA, CULTIVO INTERCALADO, INSECTOS DAÑINOS DE LA RAIZ, ELAEIS GUINEENSIS, HEVEA BRASILIENSIS, ARECA CATECHU, BACTRIS GASIPAES, ARBOLES FORESTALES, BRASIL, |
| Online Access: | https://www.gov.br/agricultura/pt-br/assuntos/ceplac/publicacoes/revista-agrotropica/revista/agrotropica-1989v1n2.pdf/view |
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