✦ LIBER ✦
The banana (Musaspp.) —Coffee robusta: traditional agroforestry system of Uganda
✍ Scribed by Peter A. Oduol; J. R. W. Aluma
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 699 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-4366
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✦ Synopsis
Banana (Musa spp.) -with Coffee robusta a traditional agroforestry system in Uganda is a purely mixed cropping system managed on a sustained production basis. The basic primary production is banana as a main food crop and Coffee robusta as the main cash crop. The variety of trees deliberately retained, managed and planted, animals and crops in the system are managed by the farmers to maximize production by supplying timber, fruits, fuelwood, fodder, food, medicinal and other miscellaneous uses.