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 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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| Format: | Journal Article biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
1994-07
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| Subjects: | alley cropping, profitability, fallow systems, |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/28565 https://doi.org/10.1017/S001447970002442X |
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