Sustainable management of soils of dryland ecosystems of india for enhancing agronomic productivity and sequestering carbon

Advances in Agronomy

Volumn 121, Issue , 2013, Pages 253-329

  Srinivasarao, Ch ^a   Venkateswarlu, B ^a   Lal, Rattan ^b   Singh, A K ^c   Kundu, Sumanta ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR DRYLAND AGRICULTURE   (India)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIAN COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Carbon stock; Chemical fertilizers; Critical C inputs; Crop residues; Groundnut shells; Integrated nutrient management; Long term experiments; Organic manure; Rainfed crops; Semiarid tropics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879273796     PISSN: 00652113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-407685-3.00005-0     Document Type: Chapter

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