Ridge-Furrow Mulching Systems-An Innovative Technique for Boosting Crop Productivity in Semiarid Rain-Fed Environments

Advances in Agronomy

Volumn 118, Issue , 2013, Pages 429-476

  Gan, Yantai ^a,b   Siddique, Kadambot H M ^c   Turner, Neil C ^c   Li, Xiao Gang ^d   Niu, Jun Yi ^a   Yang, Chao ^b   Liu, Liping ^e   Chai, Qiang ^a  

^a GANSU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SWIFT CURRENT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conservation agriculture; Loess Plateau; Mulching; N mineralization; Northwest China; Organic carbon; Precipitation use efficiency; Rainwater harvest; Semi arid; Soil erosion; Soil microbial biomass; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871486516     PISSN: 00652113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-405942-9.00007-4     Document Type: Chapter

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