42 INTERCROPS 



The following are some of the crops most adapted for inter- 

 cropping or catch-cropping. The difference between the two 

 classes, it may be mentioned, is that the former are generally of a 

 perennial nature, while the latter are annuals or crops of short 

 duration, yielding moderately quick returns. 



Inter-crops : 



Tea with Hevea rubber (the latter at the rate of about 25 trees to the 



acre) at low elevations. 



Cacao with Hevea rubber (the latter about 50 x 30 feet.) 

 Cocao with Coconuts. 

 Coca with Hevea rubber. 



Coconuts and Hevea rubber are sometimes planted in alternate 

 rows. 



Pepper as a creeper on shade trees, among Tea or other crops or along 

 roadsides, etc. 



Vanilla as a creeper on shade trees, among Tea or other crops or along 

 roadside, etc. 



Ipecacuanha (perennial), grown as inter-crop with Rubber, etc., in 

 Brazil, also in Malaya to some extent. 



Rubber or Coconuts planted at wide distances apart among 

 Citronella or Lemon grasses. 



Catch-crops : 



Cotton. \ 



Cassava (Tapioca). 



, .... Sometimes grown as an annual crop between 



v/nillies. . . IT .. . . 



the rows ot Hevea or Manihot rubber for 

 Bananas ,. , . 



~ the first tew years. 



Groundnuts 



Arrowroot 



Tobacco is grown on young rubber clearings in Sumatra. 

 Coffee (especially C. robusta). much grown as a catch-crop with 

 Rubber in Java. 



