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Open Journal of Soil Science (OJSS) is an openly accessible journal published monthly. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of soil science. All manuscripts must be prep…
Firmin N. Anago, Dagbenonbakin G. Dieudonné, Agbangba C. Emile, Oussou C. T. Brice, Amadji L. Guillaume
Inorganic fertilizers are alternative ways of providing the necessary nutrients to rice crop and increase its productivity. In order to identify the factors determining inorganic fertilizer technology adoption and rainfed rice yield, a survey was carried out…
Shamiha Nazmin, Anindita Das, Md. Zulfikar Khan, Md. Sadiqul Amin, Md. Hanif
Soil minerals study is vital in terms of investigating the major soil forming compounds and to find out the fate of minor and trace elements in soils. It is also essential for the soil-plant interaction purpose. To identify soil mineral phases especially clay…
Sally Diatta, Sidy Diakhaté, Hassna Founoune-Mboup, Charlotte J. Alster, Diégane Diouf, Richard P. Dick, Lydie Chapuis-Lardy, Laurent Cournac, Ndeye Yacine Badiane-Ndour
Piliostigma reticulatum is a native woody shrub found in cropped fields in the Sahel and has been shown to increase crop productivity and soil quality. Frequently occurring drying and rewetting cycles (DRW) may alter the soil quality beneath these shrubs. We…
Boukar Atougour, Simon Djakba Basga, Elisabeth Yaboki, Jean Pierre Temga, Jean Pierre Nguetnkam
The study of the soils from Mbé and Wack is carried out in the framework of the knowledge of soils from the Adamawa Region of Cameroon and their erodibility was investigated using erodibility indices obtained through physico-chemical data. Eleven topsoils (0…
Carmo Horta
Phosphate mineral fertilisers are manufactured from non-renewable resources. Soil fertilisation with composts is considered a good source of reuse nutrients such as phosphorus (P). The aim of this work was to evaluate the effect of compost fertilisation on so…
Yuening Song, Xiangwen Cai, Mi Tang, Yan Zhao, Mingyuan Liu
The quality of cultivated land has an important influence on agricultural output, food security, sustainable development and the ability of using cultivated land resources. As the trend of cultivated land quality is getting more and more attention, in order t…
Ahmed Ibrahim Mohamed, El-Sayed Ewis Omran
A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical data. The key word to this technology is Geography—this means that some portion of the data is spatial. In other w…
Mohammad Golam Kibria, Md. Anamul Hoque
Soil salinity is a major abiotic stress, limiting plant growth and development worldwide. Plants grown under saline soil condition experiences a significant amount of high osmotic stress, ion toxicities and nutritional disorder, and these are responsible for…
Robert J. Lascano, John E. Stout, Timothy S. Goebel, Dennis C. Gitz III
An existing Purdue-type rainfall simulator (RFS) was designed to be transported using a commercial flatbed trailer that was modified by cutting out a section of the wooden bed allowing the RFS to be positioned directly above the target area to measure soil er…
Jatish C. Biswas, Naveen Kalra, M. Maniruzzaman, U. A. Naher, M. M. Haque
Soil quality assessment methods, based on different attributes, are available but not well calibrated/validated for subsequent operational applications. We have developed a method for soil quality index assessment by considering soil texture, organic carbon,…
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Open Journal of Soil Science (OJSS) is an openly accessible journal published monthly. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of soil science. All manuscripts must be prep… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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