Agronomy

Current Research Projects

• Cover crop and green manure evaluation for integrated cover-crop/livestock systems in the tropics

• Promoting Tropical Cover Crop Mulch Systems for Minimum-Till Crop Production in the U.S. Virgin Islands

• Developing Sustainable Tropical Leguminous Cover Crop and Green Manure Mulch Systems for Low-External-Input crop Production in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Florida

• Enhancing the Sustainability of Integrated Biofuel Feedstock Production Systems 

Selected Past Projects

• Crop Diversification Complexity and Pest and Beneficial Organism Communities in Humid Tropical and Sub-Tropical Climatic Regimes

• Evaluation of Alternative and Conventional Small Ruminant finishing systems for the tropics. 

Program Faculty and Staff

Additional Links

University of the Virgin Islands
Agricultural Experiment Station
RR 1 Box 10,000
Kingshill, VI 00850
Telephone: (340) 692-4020
Fax: (340) 692-4035
http://www.uvi.edu