Production of shallot using a banana-shallot intercropping for effective land use

With the increasing competition for land, agricultural land is becoming increasingly smaller.
Most fruit crops such as bananas, avocados, and durians require a large area of land but have a limited production period and outside this period, generally, plants are not producing fruits.
One way to maximize the effectiveness of land use is by intercropping.
However, one of the problems of intercropping with fruit trees is shading, especially with mature fruit trees.
One of the potential fruit crops for intercropping arebananas.
With the banana’s production cycle, intercropping is still possible.
In this study, the effect of shading on bananas of different ages and the effect of different spacing on shallot production was tested to maximize land use.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of banana tree shading and increased population on shallot production.
The results showed that shallots were still able to produce fresh-bulb productivity of up to 15.19 t ha^‑1 under the shade of young banana plants (3 months).

VIII International Symposium on Edible Alliums

V. Alveno, M.A. Chozin, A. Maharijaya

shallot, intercropping, population, banana intercropping, land use

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2024.1398.1