Leaching of nitrate from cropped rainfed terraces in the mid-hills of Nepal

Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 221-232

  Pilbeam, C J ^a   Gregory, P J ^a   Munankarmy, R C ^b   Tripathi, B P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b Dhankuta   (Nepal)

^c ARS Lumle   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Blackgram; Fertilizer; Finger millet; Maize; Manure; Nitrogen; Upland rice

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER APPLICATION; HILLSLOPE; LEACHING; MAIZE; NITRATE; RICE;

ASIA; EURASIA; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

ELEUSINE CORACANA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 4043124929     PISSN: 13851314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:FRES.0000035194.15958.e0     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Birch H.F. 1958. The effect of soil drying on humus decomposition and nitrogen availability. Plant Soil 10: 9-31.
2. Carson B. 1992. The land, the farmer, and the future: a soil fertility management strategy for Nepal. ICIMOD Occasional Paper No. 21. ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal.
3. Collins R. and Jenkins A. 1996. The impact of agricultural land use on stream chemistry in the middle hills of the Himalayas, Nepal. J. Hydrol. 185: 71-86.
4. Hansen E.A. and Harris A.R. 1975. Validity of soil water samples collected with porous ceramic cups. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. Proc. 39: 528-536.
5. Jenkins A., Sloan W.T. and Cosby B.J. 1995a. Stream chemistry in the middle hills and high mountains of the Himalayas, Nepal. J. Hydrol. 185: 61-79.
6. Jenkins A., Collins R., Eatherall A., Thapa K. and Tripathi R.C. 1995b. Modelling nitrogen leaching and soil acidification. In: Land Use, Soil Conservation and Water Resource Management in the Nepal Middle Hills. Vol. 1, Chapter 6. ODA/RGS/IH Project, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, UK.
7. Jodha N.S. 1990. Mountain agriculture: search for sustainability. ICIMOD, MFS Series No. 2. ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal.
8. Kiff E., Turton C., Tuladhar J.K. and Baker R. 1995. A review of literature relating to soil fertility in the hills of Nepal. NRI/LARC project, Chatham Maritime, UK.
9. Litaor M.I. 1988. Review of soil solution samplers. Water Resource Res. 24: 727-733.
10. Lord E.I. and Shepherd M.A. 1993. Developments in the use of porous ceramic cups for measuring nitrate leaching. J. Soil. Sci. 44: 435-449.
11. LRMP 1986. Land Resource Mapping Project: Land Utilization Report. Kenting Earth Sciences Ltd., Canada.
12. Pilbeam C.J., Tripathi B.P., Munankarmy R.C. and Gregory P.J. 1999. Productivity and economic benefits of integrated nutrient management in three major cropping systems in the mid-hills of Nepal. Mountain Res. Dev. 19: 333-344.
13. Pilbeam C.J., Tripathi B.P., Sherchan D.P., Gregory P.J. and Gaunt J. 2000. Nitrogen balances for households in the mid-hills of Nepal. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 79: 61-72.
14. 15N-labelled fertilizer applied to maize/millet cropping systems in the mid-hills of Nepal. Biol. Fertil. Soils 35: 27-34.
15. Pilbeam C.J., Mathema S.B., Gregory P.J. and Shakya P.B. 2004. Farmer perceptions of soil fertility and of its management in the mid-hills of Nepal. Agric. Human Values (accepted).
16. Russell A.E. and Ewel J.J. 1985. Leaching from a tropical andept during big storms: a comparison of three methods. Soil Sci. 139: 181-189.
17. Schreier H., Shah P.B., Lavkulich L.M. and Brown. S 1994. Maintaining soil fertility under increasing land use pressure in the middle mountains of Nepal. Soil Use Manage. 10: 137-142.
18. Sherchan. D.P. 1987-1997. Study on a water balance of Khumaltar Agricultural farm (upland) Lalitpur, Kathmandu. Nepal J. Agric. 18-28: 89-92.
19. Sherchan D.P., Pilbeam C.J. and Gregory P.J. 1999. Response of wheat-rice and maize/millet systems to fertilizer and manure applications in the mid-hills of Nepal. Exp. Agric. 35: 1-13.
20. Sthapit B.R., Gautam M., Ghale N., Gurung J., Gurung K.J., Paudel D.R.S. and Subedi K.D. 1988. The result of a SFT Samuhik Bhraman: traditional methods for sustaining crop productivity in the lower hills (300-700 m) - the problems and potential. Paper 1988/19. Lumle Agricultural Centre, Pokhara, Nepal.
21. Turton C., Vaidya A., Tuladhar J.K. and Joshi K.D. 1995. Towards sustainable soil fertility management in the hills of Nepal. NRI/ LARC Project. Chatham Maritime, UK.
22. Webster C.P., Shepherd M.A. Goulding K.W.T. and Lord EI 1993. Comparisons of methods for measuring the leaching of mineral nitrogen from arable land. J. Soil Sci. 44: 49-62.