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Positive effects of amendments on crop yield and organic carbon in sandy soils are regulated by aridity: A global meta-analysis

Geoderma
Organic and inorganic amendment application is regarded as an effective management strategy for improving sandy soil health, thus enhancing agricultural productivity and ensuring food security.
Tianhong Liu, Lei Wu, Shuirong Tang, Muhammad Shaaban, Lei Meng, Minggang Xu, Wenju Zhang   +6 more
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Comparison of microbial community structures in soils with woody organic amendments and soils with traditional local organic amendments in Ningxia of Northern China [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Background Addition of organic amendments has been commonly adopted as a means to restore degraded soils globally. More recently, the use of woody organic amendments has been recognized as a viable method of capturing and retaining water and restoring ...
Zhigang Li, Kaiyang Qiu, Rebecca L. Schneider, Stephen J. Morreale, Yingzhong Xie   +4 more
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China-Australia: Organic opportunities [PDF]

, 2013
A century ago, China’s sustainable agricultural practices were documented and praised by US Professor of Agriculture, Franklin King, for the successful stewardship of agricultural land over four millennia.
Paull, John
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Organic amendments reshaped the chemical composition of soil organic matter: A meta-analysis

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Increasing soil organic matter (SOM) content is pivotal for soil health and climate change mitigation, yet the mechanisms governing long-term carbon (C) stabilization via organic amendments remains controversial.
Shihao Ma, Yuan Zhang, Damien Beillouin, Jianwei Lu, Tao Ren, Jun Zhu, Yakov Kuzyakov, Xiaokun Li   +7 more
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Selection of Suitable Organic Amendments to Balance Agricultural Economic Benefits and Carbon Sequestration

Plants
Long-term excessive use of fertilizers and intensive cultivation not only decreases soil organic carbon (SOC) and productivity, but also increases greenhouse gas emissions, which is detrimental to sustainable agricultural development. The purpose of this
Hui Cao, Junming Liu, Shoutian Ma, Xiaolei Wu, Yuanyuan Fu, Yang Gao   +5 more
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Bioavailability of iodine to mint from soil applied with selected amendments

Environmental Pollutants & Bioavailability, 2019
The objective of this study was to investigate the bioavailability of iodine (I) after applying different soil amendments. The effectiveness of organic and inorganic I sources on I concentration of mint was compared.
Muhammad Mohiuddin, Muhammad Irshad, An Ping, Zahid Hussain, Muhammad Shahzad   +4 more
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Organic Viticulture in Europe

, 2002
Introduction Organic agriculture is a thriving sector in Europe, and in some countries 10 % of the agricultural area is organic. Not so, however, for organic viticulture: the percentage of organic viticulture land compared to all vineyards is lower than
Willer, Helga, Levite, Dominique, Tamm, Lucius, Häseli, Andreas   +3 more
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Novel and underutilized feed resources – potential for use in organic and low input dairy production [PDF]

, 2012
This literature review evaluates the potential of a range of by-products from the agricultural,greenhouse, forestry, food processing and bioenergy sectors and agro-forestry systems as feed components in organic and low input dairy systems.
Kuoppala, Kaisa, Smith, Jo, Marley, Christina, Rinne, Marketta, Ruiz, David Yánez, Yanez Ruiz, David, Dragomir, Catalin   +6 more
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Impacts of biochar amendment and straw incorporation on soil heterotrophic respiration and desorption of soil organic carbon

Geoscience Letters, 2023
While biochar amendment and straw incorporation in soil have received great attention due to the potential of carbon sequestration and improvements in soil physicochemical properties, there were limited studies addressing their impacts on soil ...
Xiujun Wang, Zhu Zhu, Ni Huang, Lipeng Wu, Tongping Lu, Zhengjiang Hu   +5 more
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The Effect of Different Organic Fertilizers on Yield and Soil and Crop Nutrient Concentrations

Agronomy, 2019
At present, organic fertilizers are not widely used in intensive arable agriculture, and not much is known about their effects on crop nutrition. In a field experiment at Rothamsted, UK, anaerobic digestate (AD), compost, farmyard manure (FYM), straw ...
Cathy L. Thomas, Gifty E. Acquah, Andrew P. Whitmore, Steve P. McGrath, Stephan M. Haefele   +4 more
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