Intercropping with cassava in Africa

Ezeilo, W.N.O. (1978). Intercropping with cassava in Africa. In Intercropping with cassava: proceedings of an international workshop held at Trivandrium, India, November 27 to December 1, 1978. IDRC, Ottawa, Canada. (p. 49-56).

In Africa, cassava-growing areas are located from Senegal in the west, through Nigeria and Zaire, east to Malagasy and from 15°N-15°S latitude, according to de Viliers (1965). Optimum production requires an annual rainfall of 1000-2000 mm; average annual temperatures of 25-29 °C; daylengths not greater than 15 hours; altitudes less than 2000 m above sea level; and freely draining sandy loam soils dominated by oxisols, ultisols, and alfisols. The diversity of cassava cropping systems in the lowland humid tropics is based on high population densities, personal tastes, economic and political factors, and the overall level of technological development and resource availability.