Soil cover with legume plants is an alternative cropping method of integrated weed management, whose characteristics of the species intercropped with coffee plants might interfere physically, chemically and biologically in the crop and in the weeds. The objective of this work was to evaluate the potential of herbaceous legumes in the weed management in the interrows in the coffee crops. Therefore, two experimen...
Intercropped legumes in coffee rows are nutrients sources, providing soil coverage, reducing weed infestation, however, they can negative interfere on coffee. This study evaluated interference of forage peanuts and perennial soybean on growth and yield of coffee plants. The experiment was carried out in Patrocínio/MG, in a 11 years old producing coffee orchard, cultivar Catuaí Vermelho IAC-99, spaced by 3,80 x ...