The Forest-garden Farms of Kandy, Sri Lanka |
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30 farms surveyed activities agricultural AME labour units annual areas areca palm average Avocado Blaak botanical Breadfruit cacao canopy level cardamom cash crop cassava Chapter Citrus cloves coconut coefficient of variation coffee and areca crop production debt diversity dominant crops Durian factors farm income Farm size acres farmers farming system Figure forest forest-garden farms forest-garden system fruit/tree gardens ground-level grown harvest hired labour household idle income levels inputs Java Kandy farms Kandy forest-garden Kandy hills kapok kitul palm labour days land rehabilitation maize Mangosteen nipa non-farm Number of farms number of species nutmeg off-farm output paddy palm and vine Papaya Passion-fruit pekarangan lands pepper vines per-acre per-farm percent percentage plants per acre populations per acre production and income production or income profit pure-stand Rambutan relative requirements rubber small farms sold Sri Lanka structure subsistence Table time-concentrated time-dispersion total labour Vegetables village yields