@article{2940,
author = "Henri Grisseur Djoukeng and Helene Soyeurt and Aurore Degre",
abstract = "Agriculture in the Western and Northwest regions of Cameroon is based on mountains generally with steep slopes. Tied ridging coupled with crop association is a vital management option for improvement of crop yields and environment preservation. This study was conducted to determine the inter-mound distance and the crop combina-    -tion that retain the most sediment and runoff. Three inter-mound distances (1.0 m – TA, 1.5 m – TB, and 2.0 m – TC) and three crops – potato (Solanum tuberosum L.), corn (Zea mays L.), and bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) – were  selected to study their effects both in monospecific cropping and crop association, on runoff and soil loss and crop yields. The experiment was conducted in four replicates at three established crop combinations located at two sites in Western region and one site in Northwest region. Crop combinations are potato monospecific cropping (P), bean/potato association (PB), and bean/corn association (BC). Sediment and runoff sampling was performed in cropping year 2018. Crossed analysis of variance model with two fixed factors (p  0.05) showed an effect of associated crops for most variables regardless production location. Significant differences (p  0.05) was observed between the TA and the TB treatments in potato yield. Since the BP crop combination improved crop yields; by practicing it, farmers would diversify their food and cash crops. A land equivalent ratio (LER) is greater than 1.0 in all crop associations, which means that there are productive advantages of associated crops",
issn = "23191473",
journal = "IJAIR",
keywords = "Environment;Mountain;Potato;Bean;Cameroon",
month = "November",
number = "3",
pages = "370-374",
title = "{T}he {I}nfluence of {A}ssociated {C}rops and {I}nter-mound {D}istance on {S}oil and {W}ater {C}onservation",
volume = "7",
year = "2018",
}