Agroforestry for soil and water conservation in the western Himalayan Valley Region of India: 1. Runoff, soil and nutrient losses

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 175-189

  Narain, Pratap ^a   Singh, R K ^a   Sindhwal, N S ^a   Joshie, P ^a  

^a ICAR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (India)

Author keywords

Alley cropping; Canopy cover; Vegetative barriers

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; CULTIVATION; EROSION; HIMALAYA; HYBRID; RUNOFF; WATER CONSERVATION;

CHRYSOPOGON FULVUS; CURCUMA LONGA; EUCALYPTUS; LEUCAENA; LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA; LEUCOCEPHALA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031462775     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005916713956     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Alegre JC and Rao MR (1996) Soil and water conservation on contour hedging in the humid tropic of Peru. Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment 57: 17-25
2. Banda AZ, Meghembe JA, Ngugi DN and Chome VA (1994) Effect of intercropping maize and closely spaced Leucaena hedgerows on soil conservation and maize yield on a steep slope at Ntcheu, Malawai. Agroforestry Systems 27: 19-22
3. Bregman L (1993) Comparison of agroforestry systems in the Himalayan region. Agroforestry Systems 21: 101-116
4. Chinamani S and Rege ND (1965) Tripsacum laxum - A promising grass for humid areas. Agric Res 5: 154
5. Dhruva Narayana VV and Ram Babu (1983) Estimation of soil erosion in India. J Irrig and Drainage Engg ASCE 109: 419-433
6. Grewal SS, Juneja ML, Singh K and Singh S (1994) A comparison of two agroforestry systems for water and nutrient conservation on degraded land. Soil Technology 7: 145-153
7. Jackson ML (1962) Soil Chemical Analysis. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
8. Kang BT, Reynolds L and Atta-Krah AN (1990) Alley farming. Advances in Agronomy 43: 315-359
9. König D (1992) The potential of agroforestry methods for erosion control in Rwanda. Soil Technology 5: 167-176
10. Lal R (1989) Agroforestry systems and soil surface management of a tropical alfisol. Agroforestry Systems 8: 97-111
11. Mittal SP and Singh P (1989) Intercropping field crops between rows of Leucaena leucocephala under rainfed conditions in northern India. Agroforestry Systems 8: 165-172
12. MOA (1994) Draft report on Status of land degradation in India. Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture, New Delhi
13. Moench M (1991) Soil erosion under a successional agroforestry sequence: A case study from Idukki District Kerala, India. Agroforestry Systems 15: 31-50
14. Narain P, Singh G and Joshi P (1992) Technological needs of vegetative land protection measures. Proc. 7th ISCO Conference, held in Sydney, Australia 28-30th Sept., 1992, pp 638-643
15. Narain P, Khybri ML, Tomar HPS and Sindhwal NS (1994) Estimation of runoff, soil loss and USLE parameters for Doon valley, Indian J Soil Cons 22: 1-9
16. Rao MR, Ong CK, Pathak P and Sharma MM (1991) Productivity of annual cropping and agroforestry systems on a shallow afisol in semiarid India. Agroforestry Systems 10: 51-63
17. Singh G, Ram Babu, Narain P and Abrol IP (1992) Soil erosion rates in India. J Soil and Water Cons 47: 97-99
18. Singh G, Venkataramanan C, Sastry G and Joshie BP (1990) Manual of soil and water conservation practices. Oxford and IBH Co. Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi, p 52
19. Singh RP, Ong CK and Saharan N (1989) Above and below ground interactions in alley cropping in semiarid India. Agroforestry Systems 9: 259-274
20. Tacio HP (1993) Sloping Agricultural Land Technology (SALT); a sustainable agroforestry scheme for the uplands. Agroforestry Systems 22: 145-152
21. Wiersum KF (1985) Effects of various vegetation layers in an Acacia auriculiformis forest plantation on surface erosion in Java, Indonesia. In: El-Swaify SA et al. (eds) Soil Erosion and Conservation, pp 79-89. Soil Conservation Society of America, Ankeny, Iowa
22. Wiersum KF (1991) Soil erosion and conservation in agroforestry systems. In: Avery ME, Cannell MGR and Ong C (eds) Biophysical Research for Asian Agroforestry, pp 210-229. Winrock International, USA
23. Wischmeier WH and Smith DD (1978) Predicting rainfall-erosion losses from crop land east of the Rocky Mountains - A guide for selection of practices for Soil and Water Conservation. USDA Agril. Hand Book No 282
24. Young A (1989) Agroforestry for Soil Conservation, CAB International, Walling Ford, Oxon, UK