Discussion
Effect of land-use system on soil physical
parameters
Perennial cocoa systems created at the end of annual
cropping cycles can be considered as the beginning of
a controlled forest fallow with cocoa trees as the main
tree layer (Yemefack 2005). Farm management
includes cutting back of some of the shade trees and
the brushing of weeds between the crop plants in
canopy gaps at least once a year followed by crop
harvesting activities. These activities seem to have a