hi
Intercropping in the coconut garden has to be done based on the availability of sunlight. in the holdings. During the initial 8 years, there is a good light transmission and annual / biennial crops can be raised as intercrops
few annual / biennial crops that can be raised as intercrops in coconut garden ?
Tuber crops - Tapioca, elephant foot yam, sweet potato, colocasia, greater yam, lesser yam,
Spices - Ginger and turmeric,
Cereals - Rice, Maze, finger millet, pearl millet.
Vegetables- Chilly, potato.
Pulses- Cowpea, black gram, green gram,
Fruit crops-Banana and pineapple
Flower crops - Orchid, anthurium
Medicinal and aromatic plant - Lemon grass , Kacholam, Diascorea, Arrowroot, Sida, long pepper, Neelaamari, Adapathiyan.
Regds