Sustainable management of diseases and pests in crops by vermicompost and vermicompost tea. A reviewAgronomy for Sustainable Development - Tập 41 - Trang 1-26 - 2021
Ali Mohd Yatoo, Md. Niamat Ali, Zahoor Ahmad Baba, Birjees Hassan
The intensive use of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides in the agricultural field has globally destroyed soil fertility, killed beneficial microorganisms, and also decreased natural resistance in crops, thereby making them more vulnerable to diseases besides affecting human health and the environment. To overcome these problems, it is very important to shift our attention towards eco-friendly al...... hiện toàn bộ
Impact of Swiss agricultural policies on nitrate leaching from arable landAgronomy for Sustainable Development - Tập 27 - Trang 243-253 - 2007
M. Decrem, E. Spiess, W. Richner, F. Herzog
From 1993 onwards, various policy measures aiming at reducing nitrogen (N) losses were introduced in Swiss agriculture. We studied the impact of these measures on nitrate leaching under arable land in the Fehraltorf catchment near Zurich. Because of the well-drained soils, the shallow water table and the intensive agricultural activity, the groundwater in this catchment is highly vulnerable to nit...... hiện toàn bộ
Benefits of plant strips for sustainable mountain agricultureAgronomy for Sustainable Development - Tập 28 Số 4 - Trang 497-505 - 2008
Víctor Hugo Durán Zuazo, Carmen Rocío Rodríguez Pleguezuelo, José Ramón Francia Martínez, Armando Martínez Raya, Lorenzo Arroyo Panadero, Belén Cárceles Rodríguez, Maria Conceptión Navarro Moll
Lower global warming potential and higher yield of wet direct-seeded rice in Central ChinaAgronomy for Sustainable Development - Tập 36 - Trang 1-9 - 2016
Ye Tao, Qian Chen, Shaobing Peng, Weiqin Wang, Lixiao Nie
Direct-seeded rice is a promising option because it saves water and labor, and it increases productivity. Nonetheless, few studies have evaluated the transition from traditionally transplanted rice to direct-seeded rice. Here we compared yield, water productivity, and greenhouse gas emissions of dry direct-seeded rice, wet direct-seeded rice, and transplanted rice in Central China in 2014 and 2015...... hiện toàn bộ
Impact of climate change on weeds in agriculture: a reviewAgronomy for Sustainable Development - Tập 34 - Trang 707-721 - 2014
Kristian Peters, Laura Breitsameter, Bärbel Gerowitt
Over the past decades, climate change has induced transformations in the weed flora of arable ecosystems in Europe. For instance, thermophile weeds, late-emerging weeds, and some opportunistic weeds have become more abundant in some cropping systems. The composition of arable weed species is indeed ruled by environmental conditions such as temperature and precipitation. Climate change also influen...... hiện toàn bộ
Sociotechnical controversies as warning signs for niche governanceAgronomy for Sustainable Development - Tập 38 - Trang 1-12 - 2018
Raphael Belmin, Jean-Marc Meynard, Laurent Julhia, François Casabianca
In agriculture, not all sociotechnical niches seek to plant the seeds of further regime transition: Some niches are designed to last as stable subnetworks harboring alternative agri-food systems. However, such niches often interact with sociotechnical regimes, leading to controversies, conflicts, and threats to niches sustainability. This situation calls for proactive governance of niche-regime in...... hiện toàn bộ
Cadmium, chromium and copper in greengram plantsAgronomy for Sustainable Development - Tập 27 - Trang 145-153 - 2007
Parvaze Ahmad Wani, Mohammad Saghir Khan, Almas Zaidi
Soils contaminated with heavy metals including cadmium, chromium and copper present a major concern for sustainable agriculture. We studied the effects of cadmium, chromium and copper used both separately and as mixtures, on plant growth, nodulation, leghaemoglobin, seed yield and grain protein in seeds, in greengram inoculated with Bradyrhizobium sp. (Vigna). Cadmium at 24 mg kg−1 of soil reduced...... hiện toàn bộ
Aerobic rice for water-saving agriculture. A reviewAgronomy for Sustainable Development - Tập 32 - Trang 411-418 - 2011
Lixiao Nie, Shaobing Peng, Mingxia Chen, Farooq Shah, Jianliang Huang, Kehui Cui, Jing Xiang
The increasing shortage of water resources has led to the development and adoption of aerobic rice system, which saves water input and increases water productivity by reducing water use during land preparation and limiting seepage, percolation, and evaporation. Aerobic rice also reduces labor requirement and greenhouse gaseous emission from rice field. In an aerobic rice system, the crop can be dr...... hiện toàn bộ
Spatial evidence of cross-crop pesticide contamination in small-holder Thai farmsAgronomy for Sustainable Development - Tập 34 - Trang 773-782 - 2013
Rachel A. Dunn, C. Lindsay Anderson, Michael F. Walter, Warinthorn Songskiri, Chawis Srimanee, Pattarin Thunyapar, Tammo S. Steenhuis
Development efforts for the reduction of land use needs and the improvement of farmer livelihoods in northern Thailand have resulted in the introduction of new pesticide-intensive crop species. Cholinesterase-inhibiting pesticides pose a health risk to farmers and consumers, though pesticide exposure pathways are not well understood. Farmers believe that cross-crop pesticide contamination between ...... hiện toàn bộ