A Review: Effect of Intercropping with Mangif...

A Review: Effect of Intercropping with Mangifera indica (Mango) for enhancement of farmer’s income

Author Name : Ankita Sinha, Hanuman Prasad Sharma

ABSTRACT

Agroforestry is a traditional way of land use system which integrates trees and shrubs on farmlands and rural landscapes to enhance productivity, profitability, diversity and ecosystem sustainability. Mono-cropping style production has significant problems and that there exists a sufficient justification for studying intercropping approaches. Agroforestry provide insurance against risk and give stable returns even under unfavourable weather conditions. The most common advantage of agroforestry is the production of greater yield on a given piece of land by making more efficient use of the available growth resources using a mixture of crops of different rooting ability, canopy structure, height and nutrient requirements based on the complementary utilization of growth resources by the component crops. The objectives of this review is to assess the available literatures on the Mangifera indica based agroforestry systems, to show the scientific justifications on the advantages and disadvantages of the system in an attempt to provide the comparative advantages over the mono-cropping system and to indicate as the system can allow more efficient uses of on farm resources like water in order to enable sustainable crop production for a nation.