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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
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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
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Cassava Soil Conservation with Cover Crops
Cassava soil conservation depends on cover crops and contour hedgerows, because cassava is a wide-spaced, slow-covering crop that leaves soil bare and
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Coffee Shade and Cover Crops in Benguet and Sulu
Coffee in Benguet and Sulu performs best with managed shade above and a legume cover crop below, because the combination steadies temperature and moisture
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Organic Certification and Cover Crops (PNS and IFOAM)
Cover crops fit organic certification as an on-farm source of nitrogen and soil fertility, but they do not by themselves certify a farm. Philippine organic
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Abaca Soil and Cover Crops in Bicol and Catanduanes
Abaca grows best on deep, well-drained, organic-matter-rich soil on protected slopes, which is exactly the soil that a legume cover crop helps build and
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Cover Crops for Saline and Coastal Philippine Soils
Match the cover crop to the salt level and improve the soil before you expect a full stand. On saline and coastal Philippine soils, the...