Jackfruit extension manual.pdf - Crops for the Future
Jackfruit extension manual.pdf - Crops for the Future
Jackfruit extension manual.pdf - Crops for the Future
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3.3 Land-use systems<br />
• <strong>Jackfruit</strong> can be grown in homesteads, community places, by <strong>the</strong> roadside and in<br />
orchard plantations.<br />
• Forest land. In certain countries it is still abundant in <strong>for</strong>ests. In Sri Lanka it is<br />
protected from felling <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> conservation of <strong>the</strong> tree.<br />
• <strong>Jackfruit</strong> fits well in agro<strong>for</strong>estry systems. <strong>Jackfruit</strong> tree is interplanted with annual<br />
crops such as vegetables, pineapple and spices, and also with o<strong>the</strong>r perennial<br />
species such as coconut, cocoa, pepper, etc., in household and secondary<br />
agro<strong>for</strong>estry systems.<br />
• Boundary tree. Used to maintain <strong>the</strong> boundaries of land (Hocking 1996) by<br />
planting on dykes created between fields.<br />
• A component of both village <strong>for</strong>ests and home gardens, jackfruit trees <strong>for</strong>m part<br />
of <strong>the</strong> middle layer of <strong>the</strong> upper canopy along with o<strong>the</strong>r fruit trees.<br />
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