Profitability of alley farming with and without fallow in southwest Nigeria

dc.creator	Jabbar, M.A.
dc.creator	Larbi, Asamoah
dc.creator	Reynolds, L.
dc.date	1994-07
dc.date	2013-05-06T07:00:53Z
dc.date	2013-05-06T07:00:53Z
dc.date.accessioned	2026-06-27T16:55:32Z
dc.description	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.
dc.identifier	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/28565
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/137209
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Cambridge University Press
dc.rights	Limited Access
dc.source	Experimental Agriculture;30(3): 319-327
dc.subject	alley cropping
dc.subject	profitability
dc.subject	fallow systems
dc.title	Profitability of alley farming with and without fallow in southwest Nigeria
dc.type	Journal Article

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