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Aerial view of a tropical palm plantation with interrow ground

Intercropping Cover Crops in Young Coconut

Sow a legume cover crop across the interrow while your coconut palms are young and the ground is still open to light. In a young coconut planting, the wide

Intercropping Cover Crops in Young Coconut

Sow a legume cover crop across the interrow while your coconut palms are young and the ground is still open to light. In a young coconut planting, the wide

Vetiver grass planted in rows on a slope for erosion control

SALT and Sloping-Land Cover Crops in the Uplands

Combine contour hedgerows with a legume cover between them to hold upland soil on a slope. Sloping Agricultural Land Technology, or SALT, is a Philippine

SALT and Sloping-Land Cover Crops in the Uplands

Combine contour hedgerows with a legume cover between them to hold upland soil on a slope. Sloping Agricultural Land Technology, or SALT, is a Philippine

Storm-stressed cracked soil during recovery

After the Typhoon: A Soil-Recovery Program

Stabilise the bare soil first, then re-establish a legume cover. After a typhoon strips your canopy and scours the interrows, the immediate risk is erosion

After the Typhoon: A Soil-Recovery Program

Stabilise the bare soil first, then re-establish a legume cover. After a typhoon strips your canopy and scours the interrows, the immediate risk is erosion

Tropical crop plantation field in rows

Pineapple Nutrition for Bukidnon Growers

Pineapple nutrition in Bukidnon turns on potassium, nitrogen, and managing the acid, often manganese-rich upland soils of the plateau. Pineapple is a heavy

Pineapple Nutrition for Bukidnon Growers

Pineapple nutrition in Bukidnon turns on potassium, nitrogen, and managing the acid, often manganese-rich upland soils of the plateau. Pineapple is a heavy

Soil profile showing horizon layers relevant to mango nutrition

Mango Calcium and Boron in Guimaras and Cebu

Mango fruit quality in Guimaras and Cebu depends heavily on calcium and boron, two nutrients that move slowly in the plant and are easy to run short during

Mango Calcium and Boron in Guimaras and Cebu

Mango fruit quality in Guimaras and Cebu depends heavily on calcium and boron, two nutrients that move slowly in the plant and are easy to run short during

Legume root system with nitrogen-fixing nodules on a shade-tolerant cover crop

Calopogonium caeruleum for shaded Philippine pl...

If your interrows sit under a closed canopy and most cover crops thin out and die, Calopogonium caeruleum is the species built for that exact problem. It is

Calopogonium caeruleum for shaded Philippine pl...

If your interrows sit under a closed canopy and most cover crops thin out and die, Calopogonium caeruleum is the species built for that exact problem. It is