Vol. 76 No: 3

Title:
An economic evaluation of intercropping with tomato and okra in a rain forest zone of Nigeria

Author:
O.R. ADENIYI

pp: 347-349

Abstract:
The three agro-economic indicators, increased yield, increased net returns and benefit-cost ratio, employed in determining the suitability of intercropping with tomato and okra in a series of experiments conducted during the 1997 and 98 cropping seasons showed that the most profitable practice is the sole cropping of tomato at a population density of 37,000 plants per hectare. The practice produced a favourable 8:1 benefit-cost ratio and increased net returns of between 8.9% and 85.1% per hectare above other treatments hence its recommendation as a modest cultural practice. Subsidizing the high cost of pest-control chemicals on okra fields and/or the introduction of price support programmes could provide incentives for okra production as a short-term measure, while in the long run, large-scale production could be feasible if improved varieties with high yields and disease resistant qualities were developed for vegetable crop farmers in Nigeria.

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