Formulas for Economic Evaluation of Intercropping Systems

In order to clarify the importance of the equations used in the text, it had begun to explain the intercropping systems and their practices as well as examples in different countries in the world before explaining the formulas for intercropping systems evaluations .Formulas to evaluate the simultaneously intercropping systems of biological and economical basis were mentioned( ELER1 and ELER 2 ).While , Modified Economic Land Equivalent Ratio equation ( MELER ) was established and applied too. Formulas for relay intercropping and crop sequences systems evaluations were used to evaluate the intensive and conventional successions systems . Evaluation of relay intercropping in comparison with a traditional sequence was done by using EYAR1 equation .While the evaluation of sequence in comparison with another sequence was done by using EYAR2 equation . EYAR3 equation was used for evaluating the crop sequence compared with relay intercropping system . But , EYAR4 equation was used for comparing two relay intercropping systems . These formulas are reflecting the farmer's perspective which take the net return and the farmer's economic checklist in consideration.