Stable high yields with zero tillage and permanent bed planting?

Field Crops Research

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-42

  Govaerts, Bram ^a,b   Sayre, Ken D ^b   Deckers, Jozef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER CIMMYT   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Conservation tillage; Crop rotation; Permanent beds; Residue management; Triticum aestivum; Zea mays; Zero tillage

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROPS; CULTIVATION; EROSION; REDUCTION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY; BED PLANTING; CROP RESIDUE MANAGEMENT; MONOCROPPING;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CROP RESIDUE; CROP ROTATION; MAIZE; MAXIMUM SUSTAINABLE YIELD; TILLAGE;

AGRICULTURE; CULTIVATION; FARM CROPS; PLANTS; REDUCTION; SOIL EROSION;

ANIMALIA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 23444440782     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2004.11.003     Document Type: Article

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