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Coconut plantation estate with inter-row space suited to cover crop intercropping in young coconut

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

Contoured terraces on a sloping hillside, illustrating sloping-land conservation farming (SALT)

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

Pineapple intercropped with young coconut palms in a Philippine highland smallholding

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

Young mango trees in a protected orchard, illustrating mango calcium and boron 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

Shade-tolerant legume cover crop under a mature oil palm canopy, similar to Calopogonium caeruleum

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