Eksempler på fallow

• Fuel wood from improved fallows on far m may provide a means to conserve the natural vegetation, which is under threat due to deforestation.

• Moreover, sesbania does not coppice, and this means that sesbania fallows have to be re-established after two to three postfallow crops.

• While increasing insect pressures can be controlled through appropriate crop rotations and seasonal fallows, in such societies the dominant constraint is weeds.

• Improved fallows: effects of species interaction on growth and productivity in monoculture and mixed stands.

• The main objective of this paper is to assess the potential of herbaceous legume fallows in improving farm income.

• Herbaceous legume fallows are another form of such fallows.

• The haulm yield of groundnuts after natural fallows was similar to that after calliandra fallows.

• Therefore, for this field type other options have to be pursued to sustain production after shortened fallows.