Case study: Intercropping linseed and oats in Ashford, Kent Kent grower Andrew Howard, who farms 300ha of arable at Bockhanger Farm, trialled a range of intercropping techniques, run by the Innovative ...

Ross Evelsizer (left), natural resource projects director with Northeast Iowa Resource Conservation and Development, and Mike Bretz (right), a regenerative farmer in Buchanan County, Iowa, stand in a ...

Marking the beginning of a sustained initiative to empower cocoa farming communities in South India, Mondelez India, through its Cocoa Life program, managed to train 5,000 farmers every year to grow ...

The Dorans’ system involves a manageable workload, plenty of repeat customers and a robust crop Pat Doran and his son Conor on their organic tillage farm at Camolin, Co Wexford ‘We don’t have a large ...

Monocropping—or growing acres and acres of one plant species—is a common agricultural practice, particularly in the US. But it can lead to increased need for fertilizers and a lack of biodiversity ...

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 Sustainable ...

A farmer tends to her beans intercropped with bananas. While intercropping may be risky, it comes with advantages such as availing a variety of harvest for the farmer. Photo by Micheal J.Ssali. A crop ...

Single and double row methods of sunflower-maize intercrop are planted at a spacing of 75 centimetres by 30 centimetres, writes Japhet Ruto. Farmers who target off season green maize market may save ...

Plant diversity in intercropping leads to more diversity below ground too. Researchers are working to find the right combination for optimal crop and soil performance. Plant scientist Ann Bybee-Finley ...