Fodder crops, potatoes, rye, and oats are also grown.
The harsh environment and scanty, poor soil limit cultivation to hardy fodder crops, potatoes, and a few vegetables.
Other crops include oilseeds, pulses (legumes, such as peas, beans, or lentils), corn (maize), sugarcane, rape (an oil-yielding plant, the leaves of which are used for fodder), mustard, potatoes, and fruits.
From 1992 to 1997, wheat, barley, maize, and cotton have been increased and instead rice, vegetables, sweet potatoes, fodder, tea, sesame, groundnuts, sugar beet, leguminous crops, tobacco, citrus, coffee, other cereals, and grass and fodder have been decreased due to decrease of pressurized and spate irrigation systems (Fig. 15) that led to decrease of cropping intensity in Africa.
Some of the Little Alfold is exceptionally rich agricultural land that produces wheat, corn (maize), rye, barley, sugar beets, potatoes, fodder crops, table vegetables, and tobacco; the basin has orchards and vineyards.
It has variable soil types suited for grassland cultivation, except in the south-central area where the merging Exe, Culm, and Yeo river valleys are cultivated with cereals (especially barley), potatoes, fodder crops, and early-season vegetables.
D'Hose et al. (2012) also confirmed that composted animal manure considerably increased dry matter yield of potatoes, fodder beets, forage maize and Brussels sprouts.
Another related study also confirms that a four-year compost application significantly and continuously increased dry matter yield of potatoes, fodder beets, forage maize and Brussels sprouts D'Hose et al. (2012).
In Argentina, Brazil, and the Dominican Republic in particular, fodder from sweet potatoes has served as an emergency supply of cattle feed for farmers in periods of drought or during the dry seasons (see Boy et al. 1988; Franca 1988; Baez 1988).
Subsistence agriculture produces corn (maize), tobacco, peanuts (groundnuts), potatoes, and fodder crops.
