{"id":1339,"date":"2015-09-28T09:46:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T13:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/pmil\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2015-09-28T09:46:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T13:46:24","slug":"doubled-up-legume-technology-in-malawi-boosts-land-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/2015\/09\/doubled-up-legume-technology-in-malawi-boosts-land-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubled-up legume technology in Malawi boosts land productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intercropping two legumes with different growth habits is a relatively new practice in Malawi, but it could hold the key to sustainably intensifying smallholder agriculture in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Through research by Africa RISING on the doubled-up legume technology, farmers in the country are getting double benefits (increased land productivity and soil fertility) by adopting this practice.The doubled-up legume technology involves intercropping two grain legumes, exploiting the opportunity presented by different\/complementary growth habits and plant architecture.<\/p>\n<p>This research brief explains the most successful doubled-up legume intercropping system using pigeon pea intercropped with groundnut.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cgspace.cgiar.org\/handle\/10568\/68095\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read the brief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intercropping two legumes with different growth habits is a relatively new practice in Malawi, but it could hold the key to sustainably intensifying smallholder agriculture in the country. Through research by Africa RISING on the doubled-up legume technology, farmers in the country are getting double benefits (increased land productivity and soil fertility) by adopting this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[51,369,71,13,370],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","tag-intercropping","tag-legume","tag-malawi","tag-pigeon-pea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}