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Cover cropping impacts on soil water and carbon in dryland cropping system. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Incorporating cover crops into the rotation is a practice applied across many parts of the globe to enhance soil biological activities. In dryland farming, where crop production is highly dependent on rainfall and soil water storage, cover cropping can ...
Zhang H, Ghahramani A, Ali A, Erbacher A.   +3 more
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Waste reduction and nutrient recovery during the co-composting of empty fruit bunches and palm oil mill effluent

Menara Perkebunan, 2019
Palm oil is the most consumed edible oil in the world. Roughly half of the production originates from Indonesia, where the expansion of the crop has been criticized from an environmental perspective.
 Victor Baron, Jajang Supriatna, Clarisse Marechal, Rajiv Sadasiban, Xavier Bonneau   +4 more
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Combined agro-ecological strategies for adaptation of organic horticultural systems to climate change in Mediterranean environment

Italian Journal of Agronomy, 2016
Agricultural biodiversity and related agro-ecological measures could play a crucial role in the agro-ecosystems adaptation to climate changes, thus sustaining crop production.
Mariangela Diacono, Angelo Fiore, Roberta Farina, Stefano Canali, Claudia Di Bene, Elena Testani, Francesco Montemurro   +6 more
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Pearl Millet–Groundnut Cropping Systems for the Sahel

, 2023
A two-year study of pearl millet–groundnut cropping systems across two fertilizer levels was conducted in Maradi, Niger, in the Sahelian zone of West Africa.
Stephen C. Mason, Nouri Maman
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Improving In-Situ Estimation of Soil Profile Properties Using a Multi-Sensor Probe

Sensors, 2019
Optical diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) has been used for estimating soil physical and chemical properties in the laboratory. In-situ DRS measurements offer the potential for rapid, reliable, non-destructive, and low cost measurement of soil ...
Xiaoshuai Pei, Kenneth A. Sudduth, Kristen S. Veum, Minzan Li   +3 more
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Productivity of winter rye in organic vs. Conventional cropping system [PDF]

Journal of Agricultural Sciences (Belgrade), 2010
Rye is a cereal which is very much demanded at the market, for making a special kind of bread, but it is little grown in Serbia. The aim of this paper is to investigate possibilities of organic growing of winter rye, comparing with the conventional ...
Oljača Jasmina M., Đorđević Snežana S., Glamočlija Đorđe N., Dolijanović Željko K., Oljača Snežana I.   +4 more
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Weed infestation and productivity of wheat crop sown in various cropping systems under conventional and conservation tillage

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023
IntroductionClimate change, pest infestation, and soil degradation are significantly reducing wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) yield. Wheat is cultivated in rice-wheat and cotton-wheat cropping systems and escalating global population is exerting substantial
Waqas Ahmed Minhas, Naima Mumtaz, Hafeez Ur-Rehman, Shahid Farooq, Muhammad Farooq, Hayssam M. Ali, Mubshar Hussain, Mubshar Hussain   +7 more
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Improvement of Soil Health and System Productivity through Crop Diversification and Residue Incorporation under Jute-Based Different Cropping Systems

, 2021
Crop diversity through residue incorporation is the most important method for sustaining soil health. A field study was conducted over five consecutive years (2012–2017) to see the impact of residue incorporartions in Inceptisol of eastern India.
Akbar Hossain, Shiv Ram Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Amit Ranjan Saha, Biswajit Pramanick, Sonali Paul Mazumdar, Ahmed Gaber, Walaa F. Alsanie, Sabyasachi Mitra, Bijan Majumdar   +9 more
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Plough Tillage Maintains High Rice Yield and Lowers Greenhouse Gas Emissions under Straw Incorporation in Three Rice-Based Cropping Systems

, 2023
Straw incorporation promotes rice productivity and soil fertility. However, the effects of tillage practice with straw on GHG emissions in paddy fields are not well documented.
Zhenwei Song, Frederick Danso, Wenjun Dong, Jun Zhang, Ziyin Shang, Gexing Li, Kun Zhang, Oluwaseyi Oyewale Bankole, Weijian Zhang, Chengyan Zheng, Changying Lu, Aixing Deng, Nan Zhang   +12 more
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Diversification of Rice-Based Cropping System for Improving System Productivity and Soil Health in Eastern Gangetic Plains of India

Agronomy, 2022
Mono-cropping in the farming system decline in farm profit, climate change, and food insecurity are some of the major concerns that lead to unsustainability in the agricultural production system in the Eastern Gangetic Plains.
Bharati Upadhaya, Kaushal Kishor, Vipin Kumar, Navnit Kumar, Sanjay Kumar, Vinod Kumar Yadav, Randhir Kumar, Ahmed Gaber, Alison M. Laing, Marian Brestic, Akbar Hossain   +10 more
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