Cultivating clove in coconut garden
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2007-02-08
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The morphology and growth patterns of coconut palms provide opportunities to grow a wide range of crops in the interspaces for maximizing productivity from unit area of land per unit time. The crops should be selected carefully for a locality/region so that the farmers derive the maximum employment opportunities for their family labour and high net returns. Clove being the important commercial crop, suits to high rainfall humid regions. It can be successfully cultivated under coconut plantations aged over 20 years with assured irrigation facility during summer in the west coast of the country. Although the yield potential of clove under coconut shade is slightly reduced, even then a coconut small-holder would gain substantially more profits.
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Indian horticulture 2000 p-29-30