Long-term effects of lantana (Lantana spp. L.) residue additions on soil physical properties under rice-wheat cropping I. Soil consistency, surface cracking and clod formation

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 157-167

  Bhushan, Lav ^a,b   Sharma, Pradeep K ^a,b  

^a CSK HIMACHAL PRADESH AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b SARDAR VALLABHBHAI PATEL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Clod breaking strength; Clod size distribution; North west India; Organic residue management; Rice wheat cropping; Soil consistency; Soil cracking

Indexed keywords

CROP YIELD; CROPPING PRACTICE; RICE; SOIL CRACKING; SOIL PROPERTY; WHEAT;

INDIA;

LANTANA; ORYZA SATIVA; SALVIA; TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0036231543     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-1987(01)00279-3     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. The dynamic properties of soils
2. The effect of organic matter on the structure of clay soils
3. The occurrence and prediction of clods in potato ridges in relation to the soil physical properties
4. Effect of rice-wheat and aize-wheat rotations on soil physical properties including soil-water behaviour in an acidic Alfisol
5. Physical properties of rainfed wetland rice as affected by cropping system and crop residue management
6. Interaction between clays and organic compounds in soils. Part I. Mechanisms of interaction between clays and defined organic compounds
7. Rice-wheat systems in south Asia
8. Soil consistency
9. Laboratory method for determining energy requirement for pulverizing soil clods
10. Crushing of soil clods by cultivation. I. Effect of soil physical properties on the degree of crushing of the clods
11. Bulk density
12. Soil factors affecting the microstructure produced by tillage
13. Determination of bulk density of soil clods by saturation
14. Physical properties of mineral soils affecting rice-based cropping systems
15. Effect of heavy applications of organic residues on physical properties of paddy soils in China
16. Soil structure under different land uses
17. A simple apparatus for measuring clod breaking strength
18. Physical characterization of a soil under rice-wheat cropping and amended with organic residues using a single value soil physical index
19. Physical properties and processes of puddled rice soils
20. Tillage effects on soil physical properties and wetland rice yield
21. Soil structural improvements with the additions of Lantana camara biomass in rice-wheat cropping
22. Crushing of soil clods by cultivation. 2. Crushing strength
23. Quantifying flow processes during land soaking of cracked rice soils
24. Soil friability