Establishing a vegetable garden takes a lot of work. Whether you're thinking of putting in raised beds or tilling the soil for in-ground beds, a lot of decisions go into creating a thriving vegetable ...

The Diverfarming project evaluates the impact of intercropping and agricultural management on the dynamics of soil organic carbon in four climate regions in Spain, Italy, and Finland With the aim of ...

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A wide-ranging meta-analysis based on data from 60 countries, conducted by scientists from CIRAD and published in the journal ...

Progressive growers and agriculture experts are advocating for promoting intercropping, one of the traditional farming systems, to boost the agro-ecosystem and ensure food security in Sindh, where ...

Americans drink 400 million cups of coffee a day. Where does all of that coffee come from? Brazil is the world's largest producer and exporter of coffee. But environmental changes could harm Brazil's ...

Two crops are better than one. The logic is simple; the practice is not. Intercropping continues to gain attention of U.S. producers hopeful of growing two cash crops simultaneously on the same ground ...

I wrote about Intercropping – Companion planting that really works! in April and Intercropping Vegetables in Late Spring and Early Summer, aka Relay Planting in June. Now we have reached summer, many ...

Many claims of benefits from companion planting (growing two crops together) are no more than wishful thinking. Tangible benefits, however, come from intercropping (also known as relay planting, ...

Juggling two crops in the same field isn’t for the faint of heart, particularly when one is as enduring and expensive to establish as hazelnuts. Yet farmers planting hazelnuts have a powerful ...

AN increase in population demands a corresponding rise in food production but the rate of increase in food yield per acre is very slow. The changing weather conditions due to global warming and ...