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Mixed Cropping in Northern Nigeria I. Cereals and Groundnuts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

E. F. I. Baker
E. F. I. Baker
Affiliation:
Department of Agronomy, Institute for Agricultural Research, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
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Summary

Experiments with farmers' traditional practice of growing cereals with groundnuts demonstrated that the system consistently produced greater cash returns than sole-crop groundnuts. Increasing the proportion of cereal, and incorporating maize in addition to sorghum and millet, increased cash returns even further.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , October 1978 , pp. 293 - 298
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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