01165naa a2200193 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000230006024501110008326000090019452006130020365000130081665000190082965000130084865300120086165300190087370000210089277300580091313658162012-01-02 1985 bl --- 0-- u #d1 aETHERINGTON, D. M. aAn economic analysis of some options for intercropping under coconuts in Sri Lanka.h[electronic resource] c1985 aProbably well over seventy five per cent of all coconut lands in the world are monocropped. However there is a widespread interest in coconut intercropping in all producer countries. A number of factors contribute to this current interest including: Increasing rural population pressure which calls into question the viability of an agricultural enterprise that directly employs only about one person to ten acres (ARTI 1977). Theoretical calculations of the inefficiency of monocropped coconuts as converters of biological resources into dry matter equivalent per unit area (Nelliat, Bavappa and Nair 1974). aAnálise aCocos Nucifera aEcologia aCoconut aConsorciação1 aKARUNANAYAKE, K. tCocomunity Quarterly Supplementgv. 2, p. 1-30, 1985.