Search Results - subject:"SOIL FERTILITY"

Integrated soil fertility management : from concept to practice in eastern DR Congo

Lambrecht, Isabel; Vanlauwe, Bernard; Maertens, Miet - 2014

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Economic and environmental efficiency of fertilizers use for enhance the fertility of degraded soils in the Republic of Moldova

Leah, Tamara; Leah, Nicolai - 2013

Moldova found that application of fertilizers has positive effects on soil fertility along with other measures to restore …

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Survey on Fertility of Tea Garden Soil in Meizhou Region

Peng, Zhiping; Huang, Jichuan; Yu, Junhong; Peng, Zhidui; … - In: Asian Agricultural Research 05 (2013) 10

Survey on fertility of tea garden soil in Meizhou region indicates that tea garden soil has strong acidity; organic matter content remains at medium level; there is a severe lack oof available content of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K); available calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg)...

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Economic and environmental efficiency of fertilizers use for enhance the fertility of degraded soils in the Republic of Moldova

Leah, Tamara; Leah, Nicolai - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Moldova found that application of fertilizers has positive effects on soil fertility along with other measures to restore …

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Explaining investments in sustainable land management: The role of various income sources in the smallholder farming systems of western Kenya

Tanui, Joseph; Groeneveld, Rolf; Klomp, Jeroen; Mowo, … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013

Smallholder farms in the humid highlands of East Africa are undergoing changes that question the notion of the rural space. Characterized by land degradation, increasing population pressure, intensive farming and continuous cropping in small plots, smallholder farmers have increasingly embraced...

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Evaluation of the Economic Net Benefits of the various fields found on a smallholder farming system in Vihiga-Kenya

Munialo, S.; Akundabweni, L.S.M.; Mburu, John I.; … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013

Strong gradients of decreasing soil fertility are found with increasing distance from the homestead within smallholder … farms in Vihiga-Kenya. Nutrient use efficiency varies strongly between fields along these gradients of soil fertility. There … smallholder farmesr. This was an effort to recommend strategies aimed at improving soil fertility levels to nutrient deficient …

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Interaction patterns determining improved information and knowledge sharing among smallholder farmers participating in field-based learning alliances in eastern Zimbabwe

Mashavave, T.; Mapfumo, P.; Mtambanengwe, F.; Chikowo, R.; … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013

for improved integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) information and knowledge access and sharing, was explored by … the context of field-based learning alliances established by the Soil Fertility Consortium for Southern Africa (SOFECSA …

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Soil Fertility Management a Century Ago in <i>Farmers of Forty Centuries</i>

Heckman, Joseph R. - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 6, pp. 2796-2801

recycling of all types of natural waste materials, as a means of sustaining soil fertility. This cardinal rule of waste … sustainability than the promotions of the chemical fertilizer industry which has largely displaced traditional soil fertility …

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Interaction patterns determining improved information and knowledge sharing among smallholder farmers

Mashavave, T.; Mapfumo, P.; Mtambanengwe, F; Gwandu, T; … - In: African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 08 (2013) 1

smallholder farmers in improving integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) information and knowledge access and sharing, in the …

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Compost adoption in Northern Ghana

Bellwood-Howard, Imogen - In: International journal of sustainable development & … 2 (2013) 2, pp. 15-32

Despite describing a decline in soil fertility, Northern Ghanaian smallholders have not universally adopted use of …

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