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Capability and quality assessment of rice growing hydric soils in majuli river island, assam, India

Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development, 2013
The  wetland soils in  majuli island is a unique in maintaining rice ecology and geoenvironment in Brahmaputra valley of Assam  due to increasing  rate of  bankline erosion in southern bank  and expansion of channel bars on northern banks.
Bhaskara Phaneendra Bhaskar, Dipak Sarkar   +1 more
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Extent of land degradation and status of wastelands in Rajasthan (NW India) with a focus on the Bhilwara District

Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development, 2016
Geographically, the Rajasthan is the largest state of India. The mapping of degraded and wasteland, its distribution and district wise statistics is very important for land resource management.
Ram Prasad Sharma, Ram Sakal Singh, Surenda Kumar Singh, Gangalakunta Pedda Obi Reddy   +3 more
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Evaluation of automatic drainage extraction thresholds using ASTER GDEM and Cartosat-1 DEM: A case study from basaltic terrain of Central India

Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, 2018
In the study, the digital elevation models from ASTER GDEM and Cartosat-1 of 30 m resolution were used to evaluate the thresholds in automatic extraction of stream network at six thresholds of 0.05 km2, 0.125 km2, 0.25 km2, 0.50 km2, 1.0 km2 and 2.0 km2 ...
G.P. Obi Reddy, Nirmal Kumar, Nisha Sahu, S.K. Singh   +3 more
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Mineral composition and its relations to readily available element concentrations in cultivated soils of Finland

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica. Section B, Soil and Plant Science, 2022
Mineral composition is a fundamental feature that affects the properties and functions of soil through physical, chemical and biological interactions. However, comprehensive knowledge on the mineralogy of agricultural topsoils of Finland has been lacking.
Riikka Keskinen, Stephen Hillier, Eero Liski, Visa Nuutinen, Mercy Nyambura, Mia Tiljander   +5 more
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Determination of 10 Trace Elements in Kaolin by ICP-MS with Microwave Digestion

Yankuang ceshi, 2022
BACKGROUND As an important aluminosilicate, trace element contents affect the performance of the product. The kaolin standard substances GBW03121, GBW03122, GBW03122a lack the recommended values of ten elements such as arsenic and antimony.
LI Li-jun, XUE Jing
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Assessment of Suitability of Fallow Lands for Major Medicinal Plants in Tamil Nadu

International Journal of Bio-Resource and Stress Management, 2023
The present study was carried out to assess the extent of permanent fallow lands and identify the suitability of fallow lands for cultivation of major medicinal plants viz., Aswagandha (Withania somnifera Dunal), Senna (Cassia angustifolia M.
S. Dharumarajan, L. G. K. Naidu, M. Lalitha, R. Vasundhara, K. S. Anil Kumar, Rajendra Hegde, S. K. Singh   +6 more
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A global soil spectral calibration library and estimation service

Soil Security, 2022
There is growing global interest in the potential for soil reflectance spectroscopy to fill an urgent need for more data on soil properties for improved decision-making on soil security at local to global scales.
Keith D. Shepherd, Rich Ferguson, David Hoover, Fenny van Egmond, Jonathan Sanderman, Yufeng Ge   +5 more
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Using combustion analysis to simultaneously measure soil organic and inorganic carbon

Geoderma
Soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil inorganic carbon (SIC) are of longstanding interest due to their relationship with other key soil properties and indications for soil health and carbon storage.
Tiffany L. Carter, Crystal Schaecher, Steve Monteith, Richard Ferguson   +3 more
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Assessment of different pools of organic carbon for better C management in cotton-growing shrink-swell soils of Jalgaon district, Maharashtra

The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2016
Information on dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC) in agricultural soils is important for sustained crop productivity, maintenance of soil health and alleviating the climate related stress.
A S GAJARE, D K MANDAL, JAGDISH PRASAD
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Terrain-Integrated Soil Mapping Units (SMUs) for Precision Nutrient Management: A Case Study from Semi-Arid Tropics of India

NDT - Journal of Non-Destructive Testing
This study presents a terrain-integrated Soil Management Unit (SMU) framework for precision agriculture in semi-arid tropical basaltic soils. Using high resolution (10-ha grid) sampling across 4627 geo-referenced locations and machine learning-enhanced ...
Gopal Tiwari, Ram Prasad Sharma, Sudipta Chattaraj, Abhishek Jangir, Benukantha Dash, Lal Chand Malav, Brijesh Yadav, Amrita Daripa   +7 more
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