Sustaining agronomic productivity and quality of a vertisolic soil (vertisol) under soybean-safflower cropping system in semi-arid central India

Canadian Journal of Soil Science

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 771-785

  Srinivasarao, Ch ^a   Venkateswarlu, B ^a   Lal, Rattan ^b   Singh, Anil Kumar ^c   Kundu, Sumanta ^a   Vittal, K P R ^d   Sharma, S K ^e   Sharma, R A ^e   Jain, M P ^e   Ravindra Chary, G ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR DRYLAND AGRICULTURE   (India)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIAN COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH   (India)

^d ICAR NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ABIOTIC STRESS MANAGEMENT   (India)

^e Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya   (India)

Author keywords

Critical carbon inputs; Crop residue; Farmyard manure; Semiarid tropics; Sustainable yield index

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; AGRONOMY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP RESIDUE; CROP YIELD; HERB; MANURE; ORGANIC CARBON; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; RHIZOSPHERE; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL QUALITY; SOYBEAN; SUSTAINABILITY; VERTISOL;

INDIA;

EID: 84865321788     PISSN: 00084271     EISSN: 19181841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4141/CJSS2011-098     Document Type: Article

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