Agroforestry in Finland

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Orange trees intercropped with legumes - Increasing income from your orange orchard

Why intercropping?

Market-focused farmers manage orange tree (Citrus sinensis) varieties by pollarding and crafting. This procedure can take up to 15 years for the tree to reach maturity and attain maximum fruit yields. In the meantime, farmers can take advantage of the wide and open space created by the pollarding, to produce a variety of vegetables and raise a further income to supplement that earned from the orange trees.

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Wakelyns Agroforestry - a diverse organic silvoarable system in the UK

The general layout of the farm (Google Earth UK postcode IP21 5SD) is a series of 2 ha alley-cropping systems, with all production hedges aligned north-south on each side of 12m wide cropping areas. There are two coppice systems (hazel, willow), two mixed hardwood systems (ash, hornbeam, Italian alder, oak, small-leaved lime, sycamore, wild cherry, with or without apple) and two mixed fruit and nut systems. The organic crop rotation (cereals-ley-potatoes/squash-ley-cereals) runs as a single cycle around the whole farm.

Agroforestry in Finland

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http://www.eurafagroforestry.eu/countries/finland

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Switzerland

Fattening pigs in willow Research Centre Foulum

Seabuckthorn & Buffaloberry-based alley cropping

Wakelyns Agroforestry, Suffolk, UK

Sheep grazing vineyards (Vitipasture system)

Agforward General Assembly in 2017

Walnut and Maize

Mature grazed woodland at Clapham Park

Collection of reindeer

Willow coppice, Netherlands

Agroforestry in Finland

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