My workers initially planted cashew seed directly beside plantain suckers claiming to shield cashew when growing and give water during dry season. This is made up of 1500 cashew seed and 1500 plantain sucker so i began to worry if one will make way for the other or they both gonna make it. Please great farmer i need your advice and also need a solution if there is one.

get an expert to do your work

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The cashew will mature and shield the planting after 3 years ... During raining season, you do complete transplanting, the plantain will continue from same point... Note transplant 25% yearly..

Will give you full instruction.. But note after 7 years and above your plantain density will reduce and yield will be poor.

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Mr balogun is that our t intercrop. sincerely speaking that is not how to plant the root of one crop we definite disturb the other crop and there is going to b competition for nutrient uptake .
the two crops is going to disturb other best bet is to remove it and plant again. like I said again engage an expert in a project like thus

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To me, this is a new idea and deserving much attention for future studies.
Actually, the root of plantain which is considered a shrub doesn't go deep. I think what the people did was to put into consideration that cashew will later sink its roots deeper to the ground compared to the plantain. Still, at this stage, they would still be some form of competition for nutrients but later, the cashew would out grow this. Beside, from the look of things from the picture you posted, the cashew doesn't look malnuriched but well and adapting. Actually, cashews (depends on variety) are very hardy, sometimes they even grow like weeds in empty lands. They can withstand a lot of pressure! Observe them for a while, if the cashew are affected, then you will have to remove the shrubs which are not even nitrogen fixing. Usually, when we intercrop like this, we pick a crop that can benefit the other for instance, a crop than can provide nitrogen to the other: maize and soy beans. The current are not beneficiary of the other