it is important to understand the relationship between the soil seed bank and aboveground vegetation. Our study aimed to describe changes in soil seed bank composition compared to aboveground vegetation under two ploughing regimes (annual and single ploughing) of narrow strips on the edges of artifici...
Importance of Soil Macroflora in Maintaining Soil Physical ConditionShrila DasRuma DasSunanda BiswasMandira BarmanAbir DeyKaustav AdityaScientistNew DelhiDivision of Sample surveyNew Delhi
Understanding that the thousands of New Zealand farmers and growers are on the frontline of the food and agriculture sector and have a huge role to play in terms of steering the food transition, New Zealand has agreed to lead a new global sustainable agriculture declaration. This...
Home gardens hold immense potential in helping countries attain food security under Sustainable Development Goal 2: end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. This is because, home gardens can guarantee the four dimensions of food security, which are ...
The survey to document the on-farm conservation was conducted in Central Western Ghats covering four districts viz., Uttara Kannada, Shivamogga, Dakshina Kannada and Belagavi of Karnataka state in the southern part of India (Fig. 1). Initially, basic information regarding the distribution and type...
However, by sanitizing and stabilizing the organic matter of sewage sludge, agriculture can utilize it to maintain soil, water, and air quality. As ingredients in soil amendments, such bioresidues are a source of nutrients for plants. Stabilization and sanitation of sewage sludge safely couple its...
in the south to 6325 m in the north. Average annual rainfall 1300 mm. The population is 4 million and the ratio between rural to urban populations is 88:12. Forestry, livestock, and agriculture are major economic activities for rural income. The climate of the study area is subtropical ...
Forestry, livestock, and agriculture are major economic activities for rural income. The climate of the study area is subtropical monsoon type in the lower range to moist temperate in the middle and subalpine to alpine in upper regions. The summer is hot at lower altitudinal zones and pleasant ...
Weed population shifts and the evolution of herbicide resistant weed populations have been significant factors in agriculture, Agroecosystems impart selection pressures that make these changes in the weed community inevitable. Examples of weed population shifts include the rapid increase in Amaranthus rudis ...
(France). Restoration consisted in filling the gravel-pit using a hydraulic technique with dredged sediments from the Seine river and covering it with alkaline peat from adjacent wet meadows. Our objectives were to survey the functions of recreated soil 3 years after the gravel-pit was fil...