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Integrating Tree Crops, Annual Crops and Natural Rubber in an Avenue Cropping System: a Sustainable Soil-Conserving and Poverty-Alleviating Agroforestry Model in the Philippine Uplands
Carlito R. Solera - ไม่ระบุหน่วยงาน
ชื่อเรื่อง (EN): Integrating Tree Crops, Annual Crops and Natural Rubber in an Avenue Cropping System: a Sustainable Soil-Conserving and Poverty-Alleviating Agroforestry Model in the Philippine Uplands
ผู้แต่ง / หัวหน้าโครงการ (EN): Carlito R. Solera
บทคัดย่อ (EN): This paper highlights the integration of tree crops, annual crops and natural rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) in an Avenue Cropping System (ACS) as a soil-conserving and poverty-alleviating agroforestry technology in the uplands. In this system rubber trees are planted at a distance of 2m x 3m x 21m. This means that on both sides of the 21-meter wide alley, two rows of rubber trees are planted along the contour line at 2m X 3m spacing. Fruit crops (lanzones, durian, and coconut), food crops and annual crops (banana, corn, and pineapple) are planted in the 21-meter wide alley. The Avenue Cropping System is an offshoot of the Rubber-based Cropping System (RbCS), a maximum utilization of farm lands, using carefully planned and designed cropping systems with rubber as the dominant tree crop. The RCS showed that rubber planted with the minimum population of 416 trees ( 4 X 6 m. spacing) per hectare together with other fruit, root, and cereal crops could be tapped beginning on the sixth year and with growth and yield performance comparable to rubber trees planted as mono-crops. After the first year of RbCS trial in a one-hectare farm in North Cotabato (2001-2002), the gross income from the intercrops were as follows: cereals - Php24, 500.00; banana – Php25, 000.00; livestock – Php21, 000.00. However, said figures shall markedly drop after the sixth year when the rubber canopy shall close, minimizing sunlight on large portions of the plantation floor and, in turn, reducing the area for intercrops and livestock. To promote sustainable income from intercrops and livestock, the Avenue Cropping System was developed with rubber trees planted much farther apart than those in the RbCS. Now, there are three six-year-old one-hectare ACS trials in Carmen, Makilala, and Kabacan, North Cotabato. More small-hold farmers tend to adopt the ACS because it leaves permanent space for raising food crops, and animals; it minimizes soil nutrient loss; and maximizes land income. Besides earning Php120,000.00/hectare/year from growing rubber, the farmer earns from the livestock and intercrops as early as a year after plantation establishment. In conclusion, the Avenue Cropping System shall sustainably increase the Filipino farmer’s income and rehabilitate the Philippine uplands. Keywords: natural rubber, rubber trees, agroforestry, cropping system
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ภาษา (EN): en
เผยแพร่โดย (EN): การยางแห่งประเทศไทย
คำสำคัญ (EN): cropping system
เจ้าของลิขสิทธิ์ (EN): การยางแห่งประเทศไทย
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