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Agricultural Sciences is an international journal dedicated to the advancements in agriculture throughout the world. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists, students, academics and engineers all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different are…
Etienne Bahr, Ute Hamer, Diego Chamba Zaragocin, Franz Makeschin
A tropical smallholder cash crop farming system in a semi-arid Inter-Andean valley of Ecuador was investigated. Intensive irrigated agriculture with up to 400 kg of urea-N fertilization ha - 1 ·a - 1 prevails in colluvial sites whereas urea application in the…
S. S. Malhi, C. L. Vera, S. A. Brandt
The proper use of organic and inorganic nutrient sources is important to sustain high levels of crop production, while maintaining or enhancing soil and environmental quality. A 4-year (2009 to 2012) field experiment was established in spring 2009 on a Gray L…
Nader Soltani, Robert E. Nurse, Peter H. Sikkema
A total of twelve field trials (6 with kidney bean and 6 with white bean) were conducted over a three-year period (2010 to 2012) at various loca tions in Ontario to evaluate the tolerance of kidney and white bean to imazethapyr applied preplant incorporated (…
Rintaro Hattori, Atsushi Matsumura, Kenji Yamawaki, Arata Tarui, Hiroyuki Daimon
In several countries in monsoon Asia, soybean crops are cultivated in upland fields converted from paddies. In such fields, excess soil water often induces extensive damage followed by lower nutrient uptake by this crop. In this study, the effects of flooding…
Berhanu Abraha, Gebremedhn Yohannes
Salinity is considered as a major abiotic stress affecting germination, seedling growth and crop production in arid and semi-arid regions. Many techniques are used to improve tolerance to salinity. Priming is believed to be an effective solution that increase…
Marcela Silva-Gomez, John A. Quiroz-Gamboa, Francisco C. Yepes, María F. Maya, Adriana Santos, Lilliana M. Hoyos-Carvajal
An evaluation of the incidence of Crypticerya multi cicatrices and Maconellicoccus hirsutus in Colombian Seaflower Biosphere Reserve in San Andrés, Providence and Santa Catalina islands, from mid-August to mid-November 2012 was made. 38 locations were sampled…
Nader Soltani, Christy Shropshire, Peter H. Sikkema
Field studies were conducted in 2009 and 2010 at the Huron Research Station, Exeter, Ontario and the University of Guelph Ridgetown Campus, Ridgetown, Ontario to determine the tolerance of four cultivars of cranberry bean (“ Etna”, “Hooter”, “SVM Taylor”, and…
Joshua S. Okonya, Jürgen Kroschel
Indigenous knowledge of seasonal weather fore casting could be useful in decision making at village level to best exploit the seasonal distribution of rainfall in order to increase or stabilize crop yields. We examined existing indigenous knowledge by intervi…
L. I. Belykh, I. A. Ryabchikova, S. S. Timofeyeva
The aim of the paper was to determine benz(a)-pyrene in the preparations containing humates and study the benz(a)pyrene biological potency for the agricultural plants. The research methodology included the determination of the dependencies in the system “subs…
Emerson A. Bonelli, Anderson de M. Zanine, Alexandre L. de Souza, Daniele de J. Ferreira, Guilherme R. Alves
This experiment aimed to evaluate the ruminal degradability in situ of the dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP), neutral detergent fiber (NDF) and acid detergent fiber (ADF) of Guinea grass silages. The experimental design was complete ly randomized with six t…
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