Intercrops can be easily raised in banana plantation at the early stages of growth. It is a subsistence farming or cash economy in banana culture. Radish, cauliflower. cabbage, spinach, chilli, brinjal. colocasia. yam. dioscorca. lady`s finger, basella. cucur-bitaceous vegetables, marigold, tuberose are grown as intercrops) Mixed cropping with arccanut and coconut is a common practice in South India.