Soil properties and crop performance on a kaolinitic Alfisol after 15 years of fallow and continuous cultivation

Plant and Soil

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 209-217

  Juo, Anthony S R ^a   Franzluebbers, Kathrin ^a   Dabiri, Adenike ^b   Ikhile, Benson ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

bush fallow; continuous cultivation; exchangeable cations; organic carbon; planted fallow; soil acidification

Indexed keywords

CAJAN; CAJANUS CAJAN; COLUMBA; LEUCAENA; LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA; LEUCOCEPHALA; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; PANICUM MAXIMUM; PISUM SATIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

ALFISOL; BUSH FALLOW; CULTIVATION; FALLOW; KAOLINITE; ORGANIC CARBON;

NIGERIA, IBADAN;

EID: 0029660970     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00015304     Document Type: Article

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