Time of planting, Cassava/MAize/Melon inter-crop coutd.

Maize and melon were planted in April, at the establishment of the rains. Maize was established at 1.0 x 0.5m, 2 seeds/stand and melon at 1.0 x 1.0m, 2 seeds/stand. They were planted on alternate rows to have a 1:1 spatial arrangement that gives the best performance, Cassava was planted at the end of June. Soybean seeds were drilled in-between the cassava rows two weeks after the removal of the melon and a hand-weeding of the plots. The soybean was sown at 5cm intra-row spacing.