10/05/2026
Avoid over-crowding your plantation....
With the aim of getting more return per area most people tend to overcrowd their plantation which ends up having negative effects on their yield....
Getting your planting spacing and orientation right is what determines your plant population. Adopting adequate planting spacing is very important, as that is when you can get a perfect plant population which helps in getting the best of your crops irrespective of the variety or management practices put in place.
Planting spacing/population varies depending on the crops types; spacing of intercropped field is also different from field not intercropped.
The spacing to be adopted by someone intercropping cocoa with plantain might be different from farmer planting plantain alone.
Also when intercropping you might need to reduce the population of one of the crops... For instance when intercropping Coconut with pineapple you might reduce pineapple population and retain the normal population for coconut or maintain the Pineapple population and reduce coconut population the former is better.
Below are some standard plantain spacings for some tree crops and orchards (note that population/spacings varies based on individual knowledge base, location and practices... Thanks)
The plant population for the crops are on PER ACRE basis (the list of spacings are arranged from best to the average spacing)
- Cocoa intercropped with plantain by 3m = 450 plants each
- Plantain - 3m by 3m - 450 plants or 3m by 2m - 666 plants or 2.75 by 2.75 or 2.5m by 2.5m
- oil palm - 9m by 9m - 55 plants or 7.5m by 7.5m triangularly - 83 plants (I will always recommend 9m by 9m), intercropping with pineapple add 5,000 pineapple per acre or with plantain about 360 to 420 plantain.
- coconut - 7.5m by 7.5m triangular or 7m by 7m or 6m by 6m (80 to 111 plants population) rectangular. Intercropping with pineapple 5,000, or 240 to 400 plantain.
- Pineapple without intercropping - 10,000 to 15,000 plants population. Pawpaw or soursop can be Intercrop in a pineapple field about 250 per acre using 4m by 4m to prevent the pawpaw from over shading the pineapple. It can be Intercropped with other crops as stated earlier
- Citruses - 6m by 6m - 111 plant population, intercropping with pineapple 🍍 5,000 plants population
- Cashew - 7m by 7m - 81 plants or 6m by 6m - 111 population, intercropping with pineapple about 5,000 plants.
- mango - 7m by 7m , intercropping
*NOTE: When intercropping pineapple in any tree crops, pineapple should not be planted about 1 to 2m round the tree crops. In some cases depending on your practices it's always better to leave the entire planting lines of the tree crops. This will prevent selective herbicides sprayed on pineapple or either of the plant from affecting the other crop.
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