Soil fertility potential for rice production in West African lowlands

Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 343-355

  Abe, Susumu S ^a   Buri, M Moro ^b   Issaka, Roland N ^b   Kiepe, Paul ^a   Wakatsuki, Toshiyuki ^c  

^a AFRICA RICE CENTER AFRICARICE   (Benin)

^b CSIR Soil Research Institute   (Ghana)

^c KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agro ecological zones; Fertilizers and plant nutrition; Flood plains; Inland valleys; Mineralogical composition; Soils; Sulfur and zinc deficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049426155     PISSN: 00213551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6090/jarq.44.343     Document Type: Review

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