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This article contains a comparison of the profits of cultivating modern and traditional varieties of coconuts as a monocrop and as an intercrop, in ideal and in average growing conditions, with good and with average management. We carry out the analysis from a private (financial) and from a national (economic) perspective. The results show that intercropping generates more income than monocropping. In the conclusion we discuss why development organizations and Third World countries encourage monocropping.
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Godoy, R., Bennett, C.P.A. The economics of monocropping and intercropping by smallholders: The case of coconuts in Indonesia. Hum Ecol 19, 83–98 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00888978
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