Doable Technology - Restoration of Degraded Land Through Hedge-row Intercropping

Nutrient accumulation through hedge-row species
Hedgerow	Leaf litter (q/ha)	Nutrient accumulation (kg/ha/yr)
		N	P	K
Cajanus cajan	7.82	25.73	5.24	11.18
Crotaloria tetragona	22.98	79.74	11.03	27.46
Desmodium rensonii	5.31	19.28	2.55	8.28
Flemingia macrophylla	6.46	20.87	2.91	8.14
Indigofera tinctoria	16.99	65.58	13.76	27.69
Tephrosia candida	15.30	54.62	4.90	25.55

Soil loss under different land use practices (t/ha)
Month	Rainfall (mm)	Hedge-row intercropping	Agri-silviculture	Agri-horticulture	Control plot
Mar,05	161.7	0.00	0.42	0.73	1.37
Apr	91.4	0.00	1.26	1.56	3.52
May	495.8	0.51	3.23	4.07	9.41
June	298.9	0.27	1.94	2.35	6.74
July	360.9	0.22	0.83	1.50	5.02
Aug	308.9	0.20	0.54	1.09	3.68
Sept	333.7	0.43	0.41	0.84	3.17
Oct	283.4	0.34	0.28	0.35	1.64
Nov	48.3	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.72
Dec	10.8	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Jan,06	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Feb	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Total	2393.8	1.97	8.91	12.49	35.27

Yield (q/ha) of different crops under hedge-row intercropping
	Maize	Rice	Groundnut	Mustard	Blackgram
Hedgerow intercropping	32.98	29.74	18.03	7.46	9.46
Control	25.31	19.28	12.55	5.28	6.50