Hedgerows/alley cropping to control soil erosion
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 (Wilson and Kang 1981). Farmers in Jamaica showed high acceptance of this technology because it is easy to implement, has a low financial cost and is effective to compact soil erosion.
المؤلف: FAO Strategic Objective 5 – Resilience, in FAO
المنظمة: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
السنة: 2020
البلد/البلدان: Jamaica
التغطية الجغرافية: أمريكا اللاتينية والبحر الكاريبي
النوع: الممارسات
النص الكامل متاح على: https://teca.apps.fao.org/en/technologies/4645/
لغة المحتوى: English