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Maize grain and straw yields over 14 consecutive years in burned and mulched Mucuna pruriens var. utilis and Pueraria phaseoloides relay cropping systems 玉米籽粒和秸秆连续14年的产量在燃烧和覆盖的土葛和相葛根接力种植系统
IF 1.6 4区 农林科学
Experimental Agriculture Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1017/S0014479720000368
S. Hauser, J. Henrot, S. Korie
{"title":"Maize grain and straw yields over 14 consecutive years in burned and mulched Mucuna pruriens var. utilis and Pueraria phaseoloides relay cropping systems","authors":"S. Hauser, J. Henrot, S. Korie","doi":"10.1017/S0014479720000368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0014479720000368","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The cover crops Mucuna pruriens var. utilis and Pueraria phaseoloides were introduced to African farmers to improve crop production on degraded soils, yet they appear not to be adopted at scale. In the humid forest zone of West and Central Africa, the dominant Acrisols and Nitisols are inherently poor even when not degraded through agriculture. In this zone, sole maize cropping and vegetable production systems are gaining importance, yet both suffer from nutrient deficiencies. Cover crops were often introduced along with a system change, requiring biomass retention, mainly for nutrient retention reasons. Farmers in the zone commonly use slash and burn systems due to added weed control and ease of operations on clean fields. This study evaluated mucuna and pueraria with and without burning the fallow biomass in an annual sole maize crop relay system against the burned and retained natural fallow. Over 14 consecutive years, biomass burning did not cause lower maize grain yields in any of the fallow types, on the contrary, the economically important marketable cob yields were higher when biomass was burned (mulched 2.10 cobs m−2 vs. 2.26 cobs m−2 when burned, p < 0.07). After cover crop fallow, maize grain yields were significantly higher than after natural fallow (1.92 Mg ha−1) over the 14 years, with maize yields in the pueraria treatment (2.63 Mg ha−1) out yielding those in the mucuna treatment (2.28 Mg ha−1). Maize produced 1.92 cobs m−2 in natural fallow, significantly less than in the mucuna (2.23 m−2, p < 0.013) and the pueraria (2.39 m−2, p < 0.001) fallow. Introducing mucuna or pueraria cover crops into slash and burn systems appears as a suitable measure to increase yields without changing the land preparation approach.","PeriodicalId":12245,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Agriculture","volume":"56 1","pages":"851 - 865"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0014479720000368","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44484176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Does inoculation with native rhizobia enhance nitrogen fixation and yield of cowpea through legume-based intercropping in the northern mountainous areas of Vietnam? 在越南北部山区,接种本地根瘤菌是否能通过豆科作物间作提高豇豆的固氮和产量?
IF 1.6 4区 农林科学
Experimental Agriculture Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1017/S0014479720000344
Trung-Thanh Nguyen, M. Atieno, L. Herrmann, S. Nakasathien, E. Sarobol, A. Wongkaew, K. T. Nguyen, D. Lesueur
{"title":"Does inoculation with native rhizobia enhance nitrogen fixation and yield of cowpea through legume-based intercropping in the northern mountainous areas of Vietnam?","authors":"Trung-Thanh Nguyen, M. Atieno, L. Herrmann, S. Nakasathien, E. Sarobol, A. Wongkaew, K. T. Nguyen, D. Lesueur","doi":"10.1017/S0014479720000344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0014479720000344","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the Northern mountainous region of Vietnam, cassava–cowpea intercropping system has been widely promoted with support from the local agricultural department. However, cowpea yield is often limited because of a low Biological Nitrogen Fixation (BNF) activity due to its low natural nodulation and lack of available effective Rhizobium products. The aim of this study was to identify the most effective native rhizobia isolate nodulating cowpea with the potential to increase BNF and yield of cowpea. A greenhouse experiment was initially conducted with five treatments: three native rhizobia isolates (CMBP037, CMBP054, and CMBP065); a control (no inoculation and no N application); and N+ (no inoculation, application of N as KNO3). Field inoculations were carried out and the treatments were as follows: a control (no inoculation); CMBP (037+054) – a mixture of strains from Mau Dong; CMBP065 strain from Cat Thinh. CMBP054 and CMBP065 had the highest nodulation in the greenhouse (46.4 and 60.7 nodules plant−1, respectively) and were rated as effective with symbiotic efficiency (SEF) of 54.56 and 55.73%, respectively. In the field, CMBP (037+054) recorded significantly higher nodulation (19.4 nodules plant−1) than the control (11.7 nodules plant−1). CMBP (037+054) also increased cowpea shoot dry weight, shoot N, and yield by 28.6, 4.9, and 10.5%, respectively, compared to the uninoculated control. This effect was slope dependent (statistically significant in moderate and steep slope, not with gentle slope). Besides, the high expansion rate of intercropping with cowpea showed the high adoption level of these agroecological practices by local farmers. This study reveals the potential of native rhizobia inoculation to enhance soil fertility and sustainable agriculture in the Northern mountainous region of Vietnam and proposes enhanced efforts to promote the availability and utilization of effective inoculants for cowpea.","PeriodicalId":12245,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Agriculture","volume":"56 1","pages":"825 - 836"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0014479720000344","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43474137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
Optimizing sowing density-based management decisions with different nitrogen rates on smallholder maize farms in Northern Nigeria 优化尼日利亚北部小农玉米农场不同施氮量下基于播种密度的管理决策
IF 1.6 4区 农林科学
Experimental Agriculture Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1017/S001447972000037X
A. Adnan, J. Diels, J. M. Jibrin, A. Kamara, A. Shaibu, I. I. Garba, P. Craufurd, M. Maertens
{"title":"Optimizing sowing density-based management decisions with different nitrogen rates on smallholder maize farms in Northern Nigeria","authors":"A. Adnan, J. Diels, J. M. Jibrin, A. Kamara, A. Shaibu, I. I. Garba, P. Craufurd, M. Maertens","doi":"10.1017/S001447972000037X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S001447972000037X","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this study, the CERES-Maize model was calibrated and evaluated using data from 60 farmers’ fields across Sudan (SS) and Northern Guinea (NGS) Savannas of Nigeria in 2016 and 2017 rainy seasons. The trials consisted of 10 maize varieties sown at three different sowing densities (2.6, 5.3, and 6.6 plants m−2) across farmers’ field with contrasting agronomic and nutrient management histories. Model predictions in both years and locations were close to observed data for both calibration and evaluation exercises as evidenced by low normalized root mean square error (RMSE) (≤15%), high modified d-index (> 0.6), and high model efficiency (>0.45) values for the phenology, growth, and yield data across all varieties and agro-ecologies. In both years and locations and for both calibration and evaluation exercises, very good agreements were found between observed and model-simulated grain yields, number of days to physiological maturity, above-ground biomass, and harvest index. Two separate scenario analyses were conducted using the long-term (26 years) weather records for Bunkure (representing the SS) and Zaria (representing the NGS). The early and extra-early varieties were used in the SS while the intermediate and late varieties were used in the NGS. The result of the scenario analyses showed that early and extra-early varieties grown in the SS responds to increased sowing density up to 8.8 plants m−2 when the recommended rate of N fertilizers (90 kg N ha−1) was applied. In the NGS, yield responses were observed up to a density of 6.6 plants m−2 with the application of 120 kg N ha−1 for the intermediate and late varieties. The highest mean monetary returns to land (US$1336.1 ha−1) were simulated for scenarios with 8.8 plants m−2 and 90 kg N ha−1, while the highest return to labor (US$957.7 ha−1) was simulated for scenarios with 6.6 plants m−2 and 90 Kg N ha−1 in the SS. In the NGS, monetary return per hectare was highest with a planting density of 6.6 plants m−2 with the application of 120 kg N, while the return to labor was highest for sowing density of 5.3 plants m−2 at the same N fertilizer application rates. The results of the long-term simulations predicted increases in yield and economic returns to land and labor by increasing sowing densities in the maize belts of Nigeria without applying N fertilizers above the recommended rates.","PeriodicalId":12245,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Agriculture","volume":"56 1","pages":"866 - 883"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S001447972000037X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44007269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 4
Reassessing the estimation of leaf area in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) by linear regression equation 用线性回归方程估算油棕叶面积的研究
IF 1.6 4区 农林科学
Experimental Agriculture Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1017/S0014479720000332
C. J. Breure, M. Siregar
{"title":"Reassessing the estimation of leaf area in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) by linear regression equation","authors":"C. J. Breure, M. Siregar","doi":"10.1017/S0014479720000332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0014479720000332","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The area of individual leaves in oil palm has been conventionally estimated from a regression equation that is based on the size and number of leaflets. The aim of the present study is to verify the accuracy of this equation, which became standard in oil palm research. Therefore, true leaf area, measured with a video camera, was estimated from the product of number of leaflets per leaf (n) with mean length (l) times mid-width (w) of six of the longest leaflets (nlw). The database was assembled, annually for the first 4 years after planting, from 2961 leaves of dura × pisifera testcrosses descending from six distinct pisifera origins. The regression coefficients of the regression lines of nlw plotted against true area did not show a trend with age of the palms or a difference among pisifera origins. The common regression equation fitted through all data of this study accurately estimated true leaf area of the testcrosses and also the areas of 2- to 3.5-year-old dura palms of three distinct origins as well as 18-year-old tenera palms. These outcomes are at odds with the conventional regression equation that overestimates the true leaf areas by about 24%. A more recently-developed variant underestimates true area of the young tenera and dura palms by 28%, while overestimating true area of old tenera palms by 19%. Possible causes for these deviations from true area are discussed. The paper argues that parameters depending on leaf area of previous physiological studies need to be reassessed.","PeriodicalId":12245,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Agriculture","volume":"56 1","pages":"815 - 824"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0014479720000332","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45524931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Growth and flowering of young cocoa plants is promoted by organic and nitrate-based fertiliser amendments 可可幼苗的生长和开花可通过施用有机和硝酸盐肥料来促进
IF 1.6 4区 农林科学
Experimental Agriculture Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1017/S0014479720000320
S. Lambert, Hussin bin Purung, Syawaluddin, P. McMahon
{"title":"Growth and flowering of young cocoa plants is promoted by organic and nitrate-based fertiliser amendments","authors":"S. Lambert, Hussin bin Purung, Syawaluddin, P. McMahon","doi":"10.1017/S0014479720000320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0014479720000320","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Cocoa (Theobroma cacao) farmers in Sulawesi, Indonesia typically use subsidised, ammonium-based rice fertilisers that in combination with poor agricultural practices have resulted in soil acidification, loss of organic matter, aluminium toxicity and lower soil fertility. As a result, these soils are only marginally appropriate for replanting cocoa to boost production. A field experiment was performed to test alternative soil amendments for successful replanting of cocoa on these deficient soils. In a trial with a randomised block design, 6-month old seedlings, top-grafted with the local MCC02 clone, were planted under light Gliricidia sepium shade and after 3 months treated quarterly with two options of mineral fertilisers: either a customised fertiliser, consisting of Nitrabor (a combination of calcium nitrate and boron), dolomite, rock phosphate and KCl or a NPK/urea mix used by farmers, each supplied with or without ‘micronutrient’ rock salt, organic fertiliser and beneficial microorganisms or their culture medium, a mixture of chitin and amino acids (a total of 20 treatments). Over a 4-year period, the marginal mean rates of stem diameter increment and flowering score were higher in customised fertiliser than NPK/urea treatments. The average growth rate was highest in the first year and was increased by supplying organic fertiliser. A significant correlation (r = 0.22, p < 0.05) occurred between growth and available P, but concentrations of available P were higher in the NPK/urea plots, which also had lower mean growth rates. Combined supply of organic fertiliser and microbes increased available P, as well as growth rates, in both the customised and NPK/urea treatments. In contrast, NPK/urea-treated plots without these amendments demonstrated very low growth rates. The customised formulation was more effective with or without added organic fertiliser or inoculated microbes. Micronutrient supply stimulated flowering. Growth rates in trees supplied with NPK/urea were also promoted by micronutrients. Leaf flush production occurred in regular cycles and was unaffected by the nutrient amendments. After 3 years, the customised and organic fertiliser application increased soil pH and exchangeable Ca and Mg concentrations, although they remained below recommended levels for cocoa production. These treatments had little impact on soil C content (about 1.3%) which was also deficient. Exchangeable Al and total Zn concentrations were higher in soils amended with NPK/urea. The results of the trial provide evidence that utilisation of organic fertiliser in combination with customised nitrate-based formulations improves cocoa establishment, growth and soil properties and should be recommended as a replacement for the NPK/urea fertilisers traditionally used by farmers.","PeriodicalId":12245,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Agriculture","volume":"56 1","pages":"794 - 814"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0014479720000320","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42493256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Using manure for improving nitrogen fertilization and maize yield 利用粪肥提高氮肥和玉米产量
IF 1.6 4区 农林科学
Experimental Agriculture Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1017/S0014479720000393
Xucun Jia, Qinglong Yang, S. Dong, Jiwang Zhang, Bin Zhao, Peng Liu
{"title":"Using manure for improving nitrogen fertilization and maize yield","authors":"Xucun Jia, Qinglong Yang, S. Dong, Jiwang Zhang, Bin Zhao, Peng Liu","doi":"10.1017/S0014479720000393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0014479720000393","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Manure and chemical fertilizers have different effects on soil properties, the nitrogen cycle, and crop yield. This study aimed to investigate the effects of different fertilizer applications under the same N input on soil physicochemical properties and soil bacterial communities and to explain the contributions of soil properties to grain yield. Manure substitution of chemical fertilizer was conducted in leaching monitoring systems. The study began in 2009 and sampling was carried out in 2014 and 2016. Three fertilizer treatments with the same total N, P, and K application rates and one control treatment were designed as follows: (1) CK, without nitrogen fertilizer; (2) 100%U, whole nitrogen coming from urea; (3) 100%M, whole nitrogen coming from composted cattle manure; and (4) 50%U + 50%M, half nitrogen from composted cattle manure and half nitrogen from urea. Soil organic carbon (SOC) content was positively correlated with total N (TN), NO3−–N, and NH4+–N contents, the mean weight diameter of soil aggregates, and the Shannon diversity index of bacteria, whereas SOC content was not significantly correlated with grain yield. NO3−–N content was positively correlated with grain yield. Substituting half the amount of chemical fertilizer with manure as a nitrogen source improved soil stability, increased bacterial diversity, and enhanced nitrogen supply, while reducing nitrogen loss from ammonia volatilization and nitrogen leaching. Substituting half the amount of chemical fertilizer with manure as a nitrogen source was a more sustainable way to increase grain yield through a sustainable nitrate supply and to reduce N loss.","PeriodicalId":12245,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Agriculture","volume":"56 1","pages":"901 - 914"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0014479720000393","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41569926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
Direct and spillover impacts of community-based seed production: Quasi-experimental evidence from Nepal 基于社区的种子生产的直接和溢出影响:来自尼泊尔的准实验证据
IF 1.6 4区 农林科学
Experimental Agriculture Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1017/S0014479720000381
Shriniwas Gautam, D. Rahut, O. Erenstein, D. Kc
{"title":"Direct and spillover impacts of community-based seed production: Quasi-experimental evidence from Nepal","authors":"Shriniwas Gautam, D. Rahut, O. Erenstein, D. Kc","doi":"10.1017/S0014479720000381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0014479720000381","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Maize production is central to rural livelihoods in the hills of Nepal. Access to affordable improved maize seed has long been a barrier to productivity gains and livelihood improvement. This study evaluates the direct and indirect (spillover) impacts of a community-based seed production program in Nepal using a quasi-experimental method for selected outcome indicators. Our results show that community-based seed production provides a significant positive direct impact on maize income and female leadership opportunities. The impacts were particularly favorable for disadvantaged households (HHs) from lower castes and HHs that owned less land. There is also strong evidence of spillover impacts on improved seed adoption, yield, and household maize self-sufficiency. Community-based seed production thereby could help Nepal attain cereal self-sufficiency and nutritional security as envisioned in the national agricultural development strategy and seed vision.","PeriodicalId":12245,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Agriculture","volume":"56 1","pages":"884 - 900"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0014479720000381","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47922874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Herbicide residues of pre-harvest burndown in cowpea bean (Vigna unguiculata) grains 豇豆(Vigna unguiculata)收获前燃尽的除草剂残留
IF 1.6 4区 农林科学
Experimental Agriculture Pub Date : 2020-11-10 DOI: 10.1017/S0014479720000290
G. Concenço, R. Vivian, F. S. Ikeda, I. R. Pizzutti, Giovana M. E. Vela, V. L. Ferracini, L. Nora, G. Ceccon, F. Concenço
{"title":"Herbicide residues of pre-harvest burndown in cowpea bean (Vigna unguiculata) grains","authors":"G. Concenço, R. Vivian, F. S. Ikeda, I. R. Pizzutti, Giovana M. E. Vela, V. L. Ferracini, L. Nora, G. Ceccon, F. Concenço","doi":"10.1017/S0014479720000290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0014479720000290","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Cowpea bean (Vigna unguiculata) is usually submitted to pre-harvest burndown with herbicides aiming to an early harvest. We aimed to quantify the residues of paraquat, diquat, glufosinate-ammonium and glyphosate in cowpea grains subjected to two timings of pre-harvest burndown. Three identical experiments were installed in Dourados (Lat. 22° S), Sinop (Lat. 11° S) and Teresina (Lat. 05° S), Brazil, comprising the pre-harvest burndown of cowpea bean with these herbicides, applied either with 50 or 75% of the pods dry and ready for harvest. As hotter and drier the location as slower the herbicide dissipation. Glyphosate should not be used for pre-harvest burndown of cowpea. Herbicide residues were above the maximum levels stated by the Brazilian legislation when applied with 50% dry pods. Burndown herbicides aiming to speed harvest should be applied with at least 75% dry pods in cowpea to ensure safe herbicide residue levels in grains.","PeriodicalId":12245,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Agriculture","volume":"56 1","pages":"781 - 793"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0014479720000290","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47659245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Environmental and economic impacts of pesticide treatment in the Yam Minisett Technique Yam-Minisett技术处理农药对环境和经济的影响
IF 1.6 4区 农林科学
Experimental Agriculture Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1017/S0014479720000228
S. Morse
{"title":"Environmental and economic impacts of pesticide treatment in the Yam Minisett Technique","authors":"S. Morse","doi":"10.1017/S0014479720000228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0014479720000228","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract White yam (Dioscorea rotundata) is an important tuber crop in a number of countries, but especially in West Africa where it serves as a food staple as well as a cash crop as excess production is sold in local markets. But the availability of quality planting material, most notably seed yams, for yam production remains an important constraint for farmers. Techniques have been developed to help address this limitation by cutting yam tubers into pieces (minisetts), treating them with the pesticide either via a seed dressing dust or pesticide ‘dips’ and planting to grow seed yams of the required size and quality. But while there have been many studies on the agronomy and adoption by farmers of these techniques, there have been fewer studies on their economic performance. Indeed, to date there have been no studies that compare the economic performance of treating setts compared to leaving them untreated, and neither has there been any analysis of the environmental impact of treating setts. This paper reports the results of a study designed to address these two gaps in knowledge and is based upon results from a series of farmer-managed seed yam plots established in the middle belt of Nigeria over 4 years (2013–2016). Results suggest that revenue and gross margin were higher for treated versus untreated setts although the latter still performed relatively well. Using the Field Use Environmental Impact Quotient (EIQ), the commonly recommended pesticide sett treatments were estimated to have a low-to-moderate environmental impact, and further research is needed to see how far pesticide use can be reduced to still be effective and minimise any environmental impact.","PeriodicalId":12245,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Agriculture","volume":"56 1","pages":"662 - 676"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0014479720000228","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49032397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Development of an algorithm for optimizing nitrogen fertilization in wheat using GreenSeeker proximal optical sensor 基于GreenSeeker近端光学传感器的小麦氮肥优化算法研究
IF 1.6 4区 农林科学
Experimental Agriculture Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1017/S0014479720000241
A. Ali
{"title":"Development of an algorithm for optimizing nitrogen fertilization in wheat using GreenSeeker proximal optical sensor","authors":"A. Ali","doi":"10.1017/S0014479720000241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0014479720000241","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Proximal plant sensing with active canopy sensors offers a leap in the non-destructive assessment of crop agronomic information. For managing fertilizer nitrogen (N), sensor readings must be translated using functional models or algorithms to fertilizer amounts. Six field experiments were conducted in three wheat seasons in the West Nile Delta in Egypt to develop and validate an algorithm based on GreenSeeker canopy reflectance sensor for field-specific fertilizer N management in wheat, which takes into account both spatial and temporal variability of N during the crop growth season. The proposed algorithm is based on the prediction of total N uptake and response index of N uptake determined from normalized difference vegetation index measured by the sensor from plots differing in yield potential as established by applying a range of fertilizer N levels in the four experiments conducted in the first two wheat seasons. The treatments in the two experiments conducted in the third wheat season were designed to define appropriate fertilizer N management prior to applying a sensor-based dose at Feekes 6 stage (jointing stage). The application of 40 and 60 kg N ha−1 at 10 and 30 days after sowing of wheat and a sensor-guided dose of N estimated by using the algorithm developed in this study resulted in yields similar to those obtained by following the general recommendation, but with an average of 66 kg N ha−1 less fertilizer N. These results were also reflected in a substantial increase in N recovery (21.9%) and agronomic (7.7 kg grain kg−1 N) efficiencies compared with the general recommendation, thereby proving the usefulness of the sensor-based algorithm in optimizing fertilizer N management in wheat.","PeriodicalId":12245,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Agriculture","volume":"56 1","pages":"688 - 698"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0014479720000241","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43237966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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