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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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Weed dynamics as affected by practices and straw mulches in chickpea

International Journal of Chemical Studies, 2020
A two year field experiment entitled “Effect of weed control practices alone and in combination with crop mulch on weed dynamics, yield and economics of chickpea” was conducted at Live Stock Farm, Department of Agronomy, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur during Rabi 2018-2019 and 2019-2020.
Muni Pratap Sahu, Mewa Lal Kewat, Amit Kumar Jha, JK Sharma, Shobha Sondhia   +4 more
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A Collaborative Optimisation Strategy of Electric Agricultural Machinery Clusters and Rural Distribution Network in Renewable Energy Storage Application Scenario

IET Smart Energy Systems, EarlyView.
This paper proposes a two‐stage electric agricultural machinery charging optimisation strategy that first adjusts Charging scheduling to minimise load variance, then uses V2G technology with idle machinery as energy storage to reduce fluctuation and improve PV integration, solved via NSGA‐II and TOPSIS.
Qiang Yu, Zihong Jiang, Xionglin He, Yongji Chen, Lianyue Niu, Wei Tang, Jian Zhao   +6 more
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Optimizing the water-energy-food nexus in dryland winter wheat systems on the loess plateau

Agricultural Water Management
Providing climate-adaptive solutions to enhance wheat production while improving the efficiency of resource utilization is a key approach to addressing the food security challenges faced by dryland agriculture.
Di Zhang, DongXia Wu, Mingke Xue, Jinna Liu, William D. Batchelor, Dongxiao Li, Wen Zhang, Yan Wang, Hui Ju   +8 more
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Natural Parasitism of Nezara viridula (Linnaeus) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) by Trichopoda pictipennis Bigot (Diptera: Tachinidae) in an Organic Strawberry Field in Germany

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
Natural parasitism of the invasive southern green stinkbug was recorded in an organic strawberry cropping system in southwestern Germany. The tachinid fly Trichopoda pictipennis shows successful establishment and field activity, indicating ongoing range expansion.
Sophie Wenz, Olaf Zimmermann, Annette Reineke   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

EFFECTS OF PLASTIC MULCHING AND STRAW INCORPORATION ON RICE YIELD AND NITROGEN USE EFFICIENCY IN A COLD REGION

Engenharia Agrícola, 2021
For the synergistic improvement of soil fertility and rice yields in a cold region, we investigated the effects of plastic mulching with different straw incorporation rates on the rice yield and nitrogen use efficiency in a rice growing area of a cold ...
Xiwen Shao, Jiayong Gao, Yueyue Liu, Xiaohang Wang, Liying Guo   +4 more
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Hydromulches in Organic Strawberry Production: Effects on Densities of Insect Pests and Natural Enemies

Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Liquid‐sprayable cellulose hydromulches (HM) are alternatives to plastic polyethylene (PE) mulches for weed suppression in organic agriculture. However, their impact on arthropod pests and natural enemies remains unexplored. Various HMs made of shredded newsprint, water and guar gum were compared against white‐on‐black PE mulch, paper sheet ...
Andres Torres‐Moya, Deirdre A. Prischmann‐Voldseth, Greta Gramig   +2 more
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Straw Strip Mulching Increases Winter Wheat Yield by Optimizing Water Consumption Characteristics in a Semi-Arid Environment

, 2022
To investigate the feasibility of replacing plastic film with straw in semi-arid areas and establishing coordinated cultivation technology for high winter wheat yield and efficient resource utilization, a two-year field experiment was conducted under six
Yazhen Li, Lei Chang, Yuansheng Ye, Hengjia Zhang, Zeyi Wang, Jiantao Ma, Jixuan Yan, Caixia Huang, Yanlin Wu, Yucai Wang, Juhua Ma   +10 more
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Effects of straw mulching on sediment particle distribution and soil erosion control

Agricultural Water Management
Soil erosion poses a global threat to agricultural sustainability, particularly in vulnerable regions such as the sloping croplands of southern China’s red loam region. The study evaluates the efficacy of straw mulching versus conventional tillage (T) in
Jinjin Zhu, Xiaoan Chen, Bingchen Wu, Faxing Shen, Yuanhai Cai   +4 more
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Fixing Rice Stubble Burning for Delhi's Air: Technological Solutionism and Agrarian Governance in Haryana

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Every winter, Delhi's polluted air draws national attention to the burning of rice stubble in neighbouring states. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Haryana in north India, this article shows how bureaucrats and scientists attempt to enact certainty around technological solutions to stubble burning even while privately acknowledging their ...
Nikhit Agrawal
wiley   +1 more source