Intercropping

From the chapter Model Farming, Cakranemii

The following is one of the inter cropping schemes given by BABA In a relatively small plot, you can grow all the necessary foods for a healthy diet: carbohydrates (potatoes). Proteins (beans), and vitamins and minerals (vegetables, fruits, and herbs,). This ‘San excellent example of the Proutist principle of maximum utilization of space. You can teach this intensive agricultural scheme to local villages as a I model plot for their household gardens.

Plant potatoes with French beans next to therm The potatoes utilise the soil space and the beans grow in the air, inter crop cauliflowers and radishes or turnips between the potatoes. After about one months, when the potatoes have grown to one foot tall, plant pumpkins in the furrows, 12 feet apart On the ridges plant spices like anise (saufl, ajwain, cumin (ziira), coriander (dhania), etc. Around the borders of the field plant guava, banana, coconut, papaya and lemon trees at a distance of about ten feet apart can be planted. Even an area of about 40– 50 square feet can feed a family of 5– 6 people with a very nutritious and delicious diet.