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Soil mulching can mitigate soil water deficiency impacts on rainfed maize production in semiarid environments

, 2015
Temporally irregular rainfall distribution and inefficient rainwater management create severe constraints on crop production in rainfed semiarid areas.
Luo Sha-sha, Li, SQ (reprint author), Northwest A&F Univ, State Key Lab Soil Eros & Dryland Farming Loess P, Yangling 712100, Peoples R China., Zhu Lin, Liu Jian-liang, Chen Xin-ping, Bu Ling-duo, Li Shi-qing   +6 more
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Combined effect of irrigation and mulching on photosynthesis and yield traits of cotton

Guan'gai paishui xuebao
【Objective】Mulching has been widely used in Northwestern China as a water-saving technology to modify soil moisture and temperature, potentially enhancing cotton photosynthesis and yield.
LIU Chengyue, YANG Guang, WANG Chunxia, ZHANG Heng, ZHANG Shuo, SUN Rui   +5 more
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Straw mulching has an enduring positive effect on soil CO2 emissions in a humid plantation [PDF]

Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering
Mulching practices substantially affect soil CO2 emissions from agricultural ecosystems. However, the impacts of mulching practices and their enduring effects on soil CO2 fluxes in humid plantations have not been investigated.
Quan LI, Jiarui FU, Jiahui ZENG, Chao ZHANG, Changhui PENG, Lei DENG, Tingting CAO, Man SHI, Zhikang WANG, Junbo ZHANG, Weifeng ZHANG, Yi ZHANG, Xinzhang SONG   +12 more
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Assessing Government Subsidies for Reducing Pesticide Use: A Meta‐Analysis

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the efforts being made by governments to reduce pesticide use, subsidies are an important instrument to encourage farmers to adopt more sustainable practices. Yet, their effectiveness remains uncertain due to diverse designs and contexts.
Gaëlle Leduc, Douadia Bougherara, Thi Thanh Mai Ha, Laure Latruffe   +3 more
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Six-year results on the effect of organic mulching on potato yield and tuber damages [PDF]

Due to its positive effects, mulching with organic matter is a popular soil conservation tool. However, opinions are divided on the effects of mulching on pests and pathogens.
György Turóczi, Ferenc Tóth, Turóczi, György, Anikó Südiné Fehér, Südiné Fehér, Anikó, Zalai, Mihály, Tóth, Ferenc, Mihály Zalai   +7 more
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To mulch or not to mulch? Effects of gravel mulch toppings on plant establishment and development in ornamental prairie plantings

PLOS ONE, 2017
In recent years, North American prairie vegetation has served as a design model for highly attractive, low-cost and low-maintenance plantings in German urban green spaces. Where mixed-planting techniques, gravel mulch toppings and non-selective maintenance techniques such as mowing are used, prairie plantings are considered to be cost-effective ...
Anja Schmithals, Norbert Kühn
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Mulching Improves the Soil Hydrothermal Environment, Soil Aggregate Content, and Potato Yield in Dry Farmland

Agronomy
Mulching could effectively improve the soil hydrothermal environment, improve changes in the soil structure, increase entropy, and conserve soil moisture to solve the problem of grain reduction caused by perennial drought in Northwest China.
Zhen Ma, Jiantao Ma, Yuwei Chai, Wenhuan Song, Fanxiang Han, Caixia Huang, Hongbo Cheng, Lei Chang   +7 more
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Effects of mulching film on soil microbial diversity and community of cotton

AMB Express, 2022
Key points Degradable mulching film alter the diversity of cotton non-rhizosphere soil fungi. Degradable mulching film alter the soil microbial composition of cotton.
Qiuxiang Tang, Tao Lin, Zhanbin Sun, An Yan, Jusong Zhang, Pingan Jiang, Fengquan Wu, Hao Zhang   +7 more
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Productivity and Emissions in Italian Agriculture: A Farm‐Level Efficiency Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving the European Union climate‐neutrality objectives requires metrics that jointly assess farm productivity and greenhouse gas emissions at a granular level. However, harmonized evidence for benchmarking the productivity–emissions nexus of Italian farms remains limited.
Giulio Fusco, Yari Vecchio, Margherita Masi, Michele Borgia   +3 more
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Yields of wheat versus mulching practices.

, 2015
(A) The five mulching practices, (B) the three rainfalls during the wheat growing period and (C) the four regions. FM: flat mulching; RFM: ridge–furrow mulching; WSM: wheat straw mulching; MTMC: mulching with two materials combined; MOM: mulching with ...
Li-fang Wang (5663722), Juan Chen (61123), Zhou-ping Shangguan (5663833)   +2 more
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