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Section III.2.4.(II) started with the observation that sustainable agricultural production needs activities which provide information aimed at helping tactical decision makers apply weather and climate information to minimize negative consequences of adverse weather and to take advantage of favorable weather conditions. Most of what was said in that section applies to multiple cropping systems also, and we will therefore deal here with particularities that need to be considered when it comes to the adoption and practice of multiple cropping where tactical decisions are concerned. Walker et al. (2011) have some recent and older literature details.
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Ofori, E., Kyei-Baffour, N., Stigter, K. (2010). Designing and Selecting Weather Related Tactical Applications for Agricultural Management and Increasing their Efficiencies: Multiple Cropping. In: Stigter, K. (eds) Applied Agrometeorology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74698-0_41
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