尼日利亚国家园艺研究所的的AkinyemiSOS等研究了番木瓜园的杂草防除,他对人工除草、喷除草剂、间作黄南瓜、间作白南瓜、间作花生等杂草防除方法进行了比较,结果发现,在所有的处理中,间作黄南瓜会明显减少番木瓜的叶面积,化学防治与其它除草方法相比可显著可提高番木瓜的果实 AkinyemiSOS of the National Institute of Horticulture of Nigeria studied weed control in the Papaya Garden. He compared weed control methods such as artificial weeding, herbicide spraying, intercropping yellow squash, intercropped white pumpkin and intercropping peanuts. The results showed that, In all the treatments, the intercropping of yellow squash will obviously reduce the leaf area of ​​papaya, and the chemical control could obviously increase the fruit of papaya compared with other weeding methods