Grow row by row Intercropping a cereal crop with legumes is part of integrated striga and soil fertility management Farmers in northern Nigeria are changing the way they intercrop their sorghum and millet with cowpea. By planting both crops at higher densities and in separate rows, and by applying some organic fertilizer, they harvest more and reduce damage by the parasitic weed striga. It is one of the strategies of integrated striga and soil fertility management. | Farmvilla Resource Centre