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Hedgerows/alley cropping to control soil erosion, Jamaica

Year of publication 2008

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 4 p,

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Jamaican small farmers implement hedgerow/alley cropping to mitigate the impacts of hydro-meteorological hazards. The hedgerows/alley cropping system is the growing of crops, usually food crops, in an alley formed by trees or woody shrubs that are cut back at crop planting and maintained as hedgerows by frequent trimming during cropping. Farmers in Jamaica showed high acceptance of this technology because it is easy to implement, low financial cost and effective to compact soil erosion.

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