ABSTRACT
A very old mixed farming system, intercropping in coconuts is practiced by farmers in many tropical countries. Intercrops range from basic staple foods to cash and export crops. Wide spacing of palms, together with their long life and great heights, have caused farmers to find ways to obtain a second crop on the land beneath the palms (Ohler, 1969, 1972). While a detailed discussion of intercropping is outside the scope of this book, some consideration of the intercropping factors and systems is necessary for any utilization of coconut/pasture/ cattle systems. For detailed accounts of various types and systems of intercropping see Patel (1938), Pieris (1944), John (1952), Krishna Marar (1953, 1961), Seshradi and Sayud (1953); Menon and Pandalai (1958), Balasundaram and Aiyadurai (1963), Celino (1963, 1964), Sethi (1963), Anonymous (1964), Mangarat (1964), Rodrigo and Mangabat (1964), Sahasranaman (1964), Narayanan and Louis (1965), Santhirasegaram (1966e, 1967a), Owen Jones (1967), Chalmers (1968), Kee (1968), Kin (1968), Kotalawala (1968), Leach (1968), Pedersen (1968), Smith (1968, 1971), Anonymous (1971b), Hampton (1972), Satyabalan (1972), Vernon (1972), Anonymous (1973), Kannan and Bhaskaran Nambiar (1973), Sahasranaman and Menon (1973), Nair et al. (1974), Nelliat et al. (1974), Creencia (1973), Cuevas (1975), Empig (1975), Iglesia (1975), Bourke (1976), Gallasch (1976), Leach et al. (1976), Nair and Varghise (1976), and Shepherd et al. (1977).
