Risorse Tagged: Crop Intensification
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01/01/2000 Intensive Cropping combines the basic and applied aspects of soil water, nutrients, and energy management to help you optimize your crop yields and maximize the use of these inputs in intensively farmed regions. This book explains the need for intensive cropping and explores the technologies and...
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20/07/2013 The System of Rice Intensification (SRI; see EDN 70, and http://sri.ciifad.cornell.edu/) has changed the way millions of farmers plant rice. The management practices used with SRI have also now been tried with many other crops. Here we present an update about crops that have demonstrated...
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18/01/2018
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The need to feed a growing population is a constant pressure on crop production, as is coping with an increasingly degraded environment and uncertainties resulting from climate change - and the need to adapt farming systems to these. Sustainable crop production intensification provides...
- Abstract ,Applied Soil Ecology, 1997 Soil is the habitat of plant roots and of a diverse array of organisms-bacteria, fungi, protozoa and invertebrate animals -which contribute to the maintenance and productivity of agroecosystems. As intensification occurs, the regulation of functions through...