LTRP 5 - Semiannual report: Agroforestry and sustainable vegetable production in Southeast Asian watersheds

Abstract

Summary: Men and women farmers provided with plant material found that based on yield and farmer reactions, katuk, in Indonesia, and Cu nang, in Vietnam, had good prospects for vegetable agroforestry systems. In the studies of trees underplanted with vegetables, vegetable yield was higher in the second year than in open systems. By the third year, when the trees were mature, vegetable yield declined for all but cucumber and eggplant.