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Changes In Soil Properties Under Alley Cropping System Of Three Leguminous Crops

open access: yesAgro-Science, 2009
A study to evaluate the changes in soil properties, under existing alley cropping system with three leguminous crops (Leucaena leucocephala, Gliricidia sepium, and Cajanus cajan) was conducted in the experimental farm of the Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources Management, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki between 2003-2005.
Okonkwo, CI, Mbagwu, JC, Egwu, SO
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Evaluation of the Allelopathic Influence of Selected Multi-purpose Tree Species on Maize (Zea mays) under a Simulated Field Condition [PDF]

open access: yesTropicultura, 2001
Germination and growth response of maize (Zea mays) that was periodically watered with 200 ml of leaf leachates of three selected multipurpose tree species (MPTs) - Inga edulis, Anthonatha macrophylla and Dactyladenia barterii were evaluated under a ...
Adeorike, V., Ogburia, MN., Anegbeh, P.
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Effect of Tree Presence and Soil Characteristics on Soybean Yield and Quality in an Innovative Alley-Cropping System

open access: yesAgronomy, 2019
Agroforestry is indicated as a farming practice suited to enhance ecosystem services generated by cropping systems. However, farmers are often reluctant to implement agroforestry systems due to the potential yield loss of crops. In a field trial, soybean
Alberto Mantino   +7 more
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Pengembangan Pertanian Budidaya Lorong (Alley Cropping) Untuk Konservasi Lahan Kritis Di Hulu Daerah Aliran Sungai (DAS) Cimanuk, Jawa Barat [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The role and function of Cimanuk Watershed tend to declining, where total of critical area reach to a high of 131,384 ha from the total of 358,400 ha or about 36.6 %.
Mulyono, D. (Daru)
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Economic profitability of agroforestry in nitrate vulnerable zones in Catalonia (NE Spain)

open access: yesSpanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 2019
The impact of agricultural practices and the excess application of nitrogen can negatively impact the environment and cause human health problems. In Spain, the liquid manure applied in areas of intensive agriculture is creating groundwater nitrate ...
Simone Blanc   +7 more
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Agroforestry: Reconciling Production with Protection of the Environment A Synopsis of Research Literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This is a synopsis of research literature that investigates the potential of temperate agroforestry as a sustainable production system. Agroforestry is a concept of integrated land use that combines elements of agriculture and forestry.
Smith, Jo
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Mixing-in native thorny shrubs greatly improves the habitat quality of short rotation coppice strips within a modern agroforestry system for breeding birds

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Conservation
Silvoarable agroforestry systems (AFS) with short rotation coppice strips (CS) are novel land-use systems that combine fast-growing trees with croplands to simultaneously produce woody biomass and arable crops.
Jana Linnebank, Felix Zitzmann
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Microbial Biomass Changes during Decomposition of Plant Residues in a Lixisol [PDF]

open access: yesTropicultura, 2003
A lixisol was amended with four different alley cropping species: Senna siamea, Leucaena leucocephala, Dactyladenia barteri and Flemingia macrophylla. Soil samples were incubated for 140 days at 25 °C and the soil microbial biomass was determined by the ...
Kachaka, SK., Merckx, R., Vlassak, K.
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