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Reducing plant pathogens could increase crop yields after plastic film mulching

Science of The Total Environment, 2023
Soil fungi are closely associated with crop growth in agricultural ecosystems through processes such as nutrient uptake and pathogenesis. Plastic film mulching (PM) plays a dominant role in increasing crop yields in dryland agriculture worldwide. The functional guilds of soil fungi under PM and their effects on crops remain unclear.
Pingxing, Wan   +6 more
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Effect of plastic film mulching on the distribution of plastic residues in agricultural fields

Chemosphere, 2021
In the present study, plastic residues were identified in the following four regions of Tamil Nadu, India: Sulur, Nagondapalli, Royakottah, and Krishnagiri. Among these regions, the percent distribution of plastic residues was found to be higher in Sulur of Coimbatore District where plastic film mulching has been practiced for 10 years for cultivating ...
Vinoth Kumar M, Merline Sheela A
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Re-used mulching of plastic film is more profitable and environmentally friendly than new mulching

Soil and Tillage Research, 2022
Abstract Reducing the usage and residue of plastic mulch film, but not productivity, is crucial for the sustainable development of dryland farming. The re-used mulching of plastic film (directly cropping on the already used plastic film) was tested compared to no-mulch and new mulching (mulching new film each year), in the grain maize, forage maize ...
Xu-Long Zhang   +5 more
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Optimization Economic Benefits of Plastic Film Mulching on Sunflower

2014 Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Engineering Applications, 2014
Aiming at optimization economic benefits of plastic film mulching on sunflower, the study investigated the effects of re-used plastic film mulching on sunflower's economic benefit by compared with new plastic film mulching and bare field in Hetao area, China.
Shi Jianguo   +5 more
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Characterising the Chemical Additive Content of Agricultural Plastic Mulch Film

2023
Plastic is a prominent material finding growing use globally within agricultural supply chains, through cultivational practices to product packaging. Mulch film is one such ‘plasticulture’ application where opaque film is stretched over the soil surface to maintain a humid microclimate at the crops / fruits soil-root zone as well as
Charlie Monkley   +3 more
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LIGHT FILTERING BY INNOVATIVE PLASTIC FILMS FOR MULCHING AND SOIL SOLARIZATION

Acta Horticulturae, 2014
In the last two decades, agricultural photoselective films represented a valid contribute for the improvement of crops from a point of view both qualitative and quantitative. We are reporting an update of this kind of plastic, used for mulch and soil sterilization.
Mormile Pasquale   +3 more
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Effects of residual plastic-film mulch on field corn growth and productivity

Science of The Total Environment, 2020
Plastic-film mulching has played an important role to promote agricultural production in arid areas; however, due to its inefficient recycling capacity, large amounts of residues have been accumulated in soils, causing negative impacts on crop growth and on the environment.
Qi Hu   +5 more
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