Corn Cultivation and Its Relationship with Soil Quality: A Focus on Soil Quality Index Methodologies
LandCorn is a globally important crop, requiring extensive soils and intensive practices to meet the growing human and animal consumption demand. However, intensive agriculture has caused soil deterioration and fertility loss.
Eloy Conde-Barajas +8 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 Indian soils are inherently poor in quality due to the warm climate and erosion. Conversion of land uses like forests to croplands and faulty management practices in croplands further cause soil degradation.
Parijat De +7 more
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Evaluating the Role of Different Management Systems on Soil Quality Index Using Crop Yield (Case Study: Neyshabour Plain, Iran) [PDF]
مجله آب و خاک, 2022 Introduction The type of management operations and land use systems are the key parameters affecting the soil quality and sustainable land use. The exploitation systems by efficient use of soil and water recourse can decrease productions costs and ...
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The Iraqi Journal of Agricultural science, 2021 The objective of this study was to identify the locations sensitivity to land desertification based on the Mediterranean Desertification and Land Use (MEDALUS) approach by the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the south of Maysan governorate at ...
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Evaluation of Soil Quality in Arid Western Fringes of the Nile Delta for Sustainable Agriculture
Applied and Environmental Soil Science, 2021 Egypt is currently witnessing an extensive desert greening plan with a target of adding one and a half million feddans to the agricultural area. The present study evaluates the soil quality in the western desert fringes of the Nile Delta using three ...
Ahmed M. Saleh +3 more
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The effect of land use on soil quality in Giriwoyo Sub-district, Wonogiri Regency
Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management, 2020 Determination of soil quality in Giriwoyo Sub-district, Wonogiri Regency, will generate a Soil Quality Index which can be used as a reference for soil cultivation for optimal productivity.
Mujiyo Mujiyo +3 more
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Assessment of soil quality in an arid and barren mountainous of Shandong province, China
Scientific Reports, 2023 Forest soils are important components of forest ecosystems, and soil quality assessment as a decision-making tool to understand forest soil quality and maintain soil productivity is essential.
Lu Wang +10 more
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Analysis of soil physical quality index (case study: groundnut/ Arachis hypogeal L.) [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 Physical properties of soil are good for plant growth is closely related to the management of the soil, so it will need to integrate of physical properties to get an overall assessment with making soil physical quality index (SPQI). This study aims to an
Riskawati R. +2 more
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Reduced tillage, but not organic matter input, increased nematode diversity and food web stability in European long‐term field experiments [PDF]
, 2019 Soil nematode communities and food web indices can inform about the complexity, nutrient flows and decomposition pathways of soil food webs, reflecting soil quality.
De Caceres M. +22 more
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Application of Minimal Data Sets for Quantitative Assessment and Investigation of Spatial Autocorrelation of Soil Quality in Southwestern Lands of Urmia Plain [PDF]
علوم آب و خاک, 2023 Soil quality is one of the most crucial factors determining crop productivity and production stability. The soil's physical, chemical, biological, and ecological characteristics affect its quality. Numerous researchers have concentrated the evaluation on
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