title: Intercropping cereals and grain legumes: a farmer’s perspective
creator: Prins, U.
creator: Wit, J. de
subject: Crop health, quality, protection
subject:  Crop combinations and interactions
subject:  Weed management
subject:  Farm economics
description: Intercropping cereals and grain legumes show potential for organic agriculture in many ways. However, the use of land equivalent ratio (LER) as a measure for calculating the cropping advantage of intercrops over sole crops is too simple: neglecting weed suppression, yield reliability, grain quality, and minimum profitable yield, which are all relevant fac-tors from a farmer’s perspective. Only when the crop selection for the mixtures is carefully done, and crops are grown on the right soil in the right rotation, can intercropping be made to profit.
date: 2006
type: Conference paper, poster, etc. 
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://orgprints.org/7297/1/Intercropping_paper_Odense_final.pdf
identifier: Prins, U. and Wit, J. de (2006) Intercropping cereals and grain legumes: a farmer’s perspective. Joint Organic Congress, Odense, Denmark, May 30-31, 2006.
relation: http://orgprints.org/7297/