Potassium and Residue Management Options to Enhance Productivity and Soil Quality in Zero Till Maize–Wheat Rotation

The study was conducted in 2019-2020 to assess the perception of the farmers on cropresidue burning (CRB) in Haryana. A total of 180 farmers from three purposively selecteddistricts, namely Karnal, Kurukshetra, and Fatehabad from Haryana, were chosen to collectdata. Stratified random sampling was employed in the selection of blocks, villages, andrespondents. For measuring farmers’ perception, a scale was constructed using Likert’smethod of summated ratings. Farmers perceived CRB as an economical and viable optionand considered it an efficient practice. Most farmers did not perceive the happy seeder asfeasible since it needed a high horsepower tractor. Farmers’ perception was positively andsignificantly correlated with education, operational land holding, and annual income (P<0.05).Hence, there is a need to promote community-based approaches like custom hiring centre,bio-mass-based power plants, mushroom cultivation, etc., through extension and advisoryservices. It may lead to adopting alternative crop residue management options and mitigatingresidue burning in the long run.

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Fourteen years of applying zero and conventional tillage, crop rotation and residue management systems and its effect on physical and chemical soil quality

European Journal of Agronomy ◽

10.1016/j.eja.2008.10.005 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 228-237 ◽

Cited By ~ 91

Author(s):

Mariela Fuentes ◽

Bram Govaerts ◽

Fernando De León ◽

Claudia Hidalgo ◽

Luc Dendooven ◽

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Keyword(s):

Soil Quality ◽

Crop Rotation ◽

Conventional Tillage ◽

Residue Management ◽

Management Systems ◽

Chemical Soil ◽

Physical And Chemical

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Wheat residue management options for no-till corn

Canadian Journal of Plant Science ◽

10.4141/p96-128 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 77 (2) ◽

pp. 207-213 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

G. Opoku ◽

T. J. Vyn

Keyword(s):

Soil Moisture ◽

Winter Wheat ◽

Grain Yield ◽

Soil Surface ◽

Triticum Aestivum L ◽

Residue Management ◽

Yield Reduction ◽

Management Options ◽

Grain Yields ◽

No Till

Corn (Zea mays L.) yield reduction following winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) in no-till systems prompted a study on the effects of tillage and residue management systems on corn growth and seedbed conditions. Four methods for managing wheat residue (all residue removed, straw baled after harvest, straw left on the soil surface, straw left on the soil surface plus application of 50 kg ha−1N in the fall) were evaluated at two tillage levels: fall moldboard plow (MP) and no-till (NT). No-till treatments required at least 2 more days to achieve 50% corn emergence and 50% silking, and had the lowest corn biomass at 5 and 7 wk after planting. Grain yield was similar among MP treatments and averaged 1.1 t ha−1 higher than NT treatments (P < 0.05). Completely removing all wheat residue from NT plots reduced the number of days required to achieve 50% corn emergence and increased grain yields by 0.43 and 0.61 t ha–1 over baling and not baling straw, respectively, but still resulted in 8% lower grain yields than MP treatments. Grain yield differences among MP treatments were insignificant regardless of the amount of wheat residue left on the surface or N application in the fall. Early in the growing season, the NT treatments where residue was not removed had lower soil growing degree days (soil GDD) compared with MP (baled) treatment, and higher soil moisture levels in the top 15 cm compared with all other treatments. The application of 50 kg N ha−1 in the fall to NT (not baled) plots influenced neither the amount of wheat residue on the soil surface, nor the soil NO3-N levels at planting. Our results suggest that corn response in NT systems after wheat mostly depends on residue level. Key words: Winter wheat, straw management, no-till, corn, soil temperature, soil moisture

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Thirty years of research on soil quality in forest systems under Mediterranean conditions. Trends and future

Spanish Journal of Soil Science ◽

10.3232/sjss.2015.v5.n2.01 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

Author(s):

Manuel Madeira

Keyword(s):

Soil Quality ◽

Soil Degradation ◽

Scale Effects ◽

Residue Management ◽

Unit Management ◽

Unit Scale ◽

Management Schemes ◽

Intensively Managed ◽

Carbon Losses ◽

Soil Quality Monitoring

This paper presents an overview of the studies carried out between the mid-1980s and 2014 in Portugal, regarding the evaluation of soil quality within intensively managed forest systems. These studies show that the degradation of soil quality in such systems is mostly associated with the land, soil and harvest residue management schemes. Also, it was concluded that experimental results showing the short-term (one rotation scale) effects are useful for identifying the most appropriate land and residue management systems for maintaining the soil quality and thus forestry productivity and sustainability. However, these studies do not take into account all the risks and threats regarding soil degradation within the forestry activity at the land unit scale. Therefore it is necessary, on one hand, to develop long term experimental and risk assessment systems and, on the other hand, to delineate and implement soil quality monitoring systems that control soil degradation (e.g. erosion, compaction, nutrient and carbon losses) at the forest unit management scale.

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