%0 Conference Paper
%A Prins, U.
%A Wit, J. de
%D 2006
%F orgprints:7297
%T Intercropping cereals and grain legumes: a farmer’s perspective
%U http://orgprints.org/7297/
%X 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.