Combined effects of Stylosanthes guianensis fallow and tillage management on upland rice yield, weeds and soils in southern Benin

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 57-63

  Saito, K ^a   Azoma, K ^a   Oikeh, S O ^b  

^a AFRICA RICE CENTER AFRICARICE   (Benin)

^b African Agricultural Technology Foundation   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Biomass; Integrated crop management; NERICA; No tillage; Relay cropping

Indexed keywords

COMBINED EFFECT; CROP MANAGEMENTS; DRY SEASONS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GROWING SEASON; LEGUME SPECIES; NERICA; NO TILLAGE; RICE CULTIVATION; RICE YIELD; SMALLHOLDER FARMERS; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL ORGANIC C; SOIL PROPERTY; STYLOSANTHES GUIANENSIS; TILLAGE MANAGEMENT; TOTAL BIOMASS; WEST AFRICA; WET SEASON;

BIOMASS; CROPS; CULTIVATION; LANDFORMS; MANAGEMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BIOMASS; FALLOW; FIELDWORK; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; LEGUME; PHOSPHORUS; RICE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL NITROGEN; TILLAGE; WEED; YIELD RESPONSE;

BENIN [WEST AFRICA];

STYLOSANTHES GUIANENSIS;

EID: 77950628625     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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