Medium-term effects of conservation agriculture based cropping systems for sustainable soil and water management and crop productivity in the Ethiopian highlands

Field Crops Research

Volumn 132, Issue , 2012, Pages 53-62

  Araya, Tesfay ^a,b   Cornelis, Wim M ^b   Nyssen, Jan ^b   Govaerts, Bram ^c   Getnet, Fekadu ^a   Bauer, Hans ^d   Amare, Kassa ^a   Raes, Dirk ^d   Haile, Mitiku ^a   Deckers, Jozef ^d  

^a MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conservation agriculture; Crop residue; Grass pea; Permanent raised beds; Vertisol; Wheat

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BIOMASS; CEREAL; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP RESIDUE; CROP ROTATION; CROP YIELD; CROPPING PRACTICE; GLYPHOSATE; GRASS; PLOWING; RUNOFF; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOWING; STORM; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TILLAGE; VERTISOL; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ETHIOPIA;

BOS; HORDEUM; LATHYRUS SATIVUS; PISUM SATIVUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84860462918     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2011.12.009     Document Type: Article

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