The Tropical Agriculturalist Alley Farming

"The Tropical Agriculturalist" is a series of practical field guides and textbooks for: producers, farmers and farm managers, agricultural extension officers agricultural diploma, degree and vocational students, teachers and lecturers, senior secondary students, as reference books, adult education, rural and community development programmes. Alley farming is one of a wide range of different farming and land-use systems which have evolved in the humid and sub-humid tropics, each adapted to local ecological and socio-economic conditions and cultures. This book should help readers both understand the concept of alley farming and its potential as sustainable farming technique. It covers the historical development of alley farming, practical guidelines for establishing and managing it, including soil management, the benefits to crop and livestock production as well as auxiliary benefits, and its problems of social acceptance and adoption.