Citation:

5 BN Okigbo, DJ Greenland. 1976. Intercropping systems in tropical Africa. Pages 63-101. In: RI Papendick, PA Sanchez, GB Tripplet (editors). Multiple Cropping. ASA Special Publication Number 27, American Society of Agronomy, 677 South Segoe Road, Madison, Wisconsin 53711, 378 pages. ISBN 0891180451

Keywords: farming systems and associated cropping patterns, some characteristics of traditional farming and associated cropping systems, factors contributing to changes in cropping systems and adaptations to prevailing conditions, crop diversity and spatial arrangement, regional and country survey of multiple cropping systems, Nigeria, Western and Midwestern Nigeria, Middle Belt of Nigeria, Northern Nigeria, West Africa, Ghana, Senegal, Liberia, Central and Southern Africa, Congo, Zimbabwe, East Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, review of research on intercropping in Africa