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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…
Germaine A. Tanoh, Félix B. O. Bouadou, Jean Baptiste D. Ettien, 1 1
The cropping system is based on traditional farming in rural areas. In this way, yields of some food crops like yam are very low considering their high need for nutrients. The nutrient-rich land is under high land pressure as it is occupied by cash crops such…
Anthony T. Sacco, Marcelle Agius, Clara Didier
The soils of Malta are calcareous and generally undeveloped. Organic matter (OM) in these soils is low and farmers are constantly urged to increase it. The objective of this study was to evaluate any temporal variation in soil OM after 15 years of cultivation…
Frank Abigail Sobze Kenfack, Georges Kogge Kome, Achille Bienvenue Ibrahim, Viviane Pauline Mandah, Dieudonne Bitondo, 1 1
This study was conducted to assess the current stock of soil organic carbon under different agricultural land uses, soil types and soil depths in the Noun plain in western Cameroon. Three sites were selected for the study, namely Mangoum, Makeka and Fossang,…
Xinhua Yin
Technologies for reducing corn leaf burn caused by foliar spray of urea-ammonium nitrate (UAN) during the early growing season are limited. A field experiment was carried out to evaluate the effects of humic acid on corn leaf burn caused by foliar spray of un…
Kenneth Ray Olson, Sergey Stanislavovich Chernyanskii
The Volga River flows entirely through Russia and the watershed includes three of the country’s ten largest cities. The river is the longest in Europe and western Russia’s principal waterway. The Volga River basin is home to approximately half of Russia’s pop…
Boakye Acheampong, Kodwo Miezah, Enoch Bessah, Benedicta Essel Ayamba, Francis Kemausour
Composting as a solution to the increasing generation of municipal solid waste (MSW), also contribute to GHGs emission when not controlled and could lack some basic nutrients, especially nitrogen. This study assessed the split-additions of nitrogen-rich subst…
Mamadou Toure, Kpan Kouakou Gains Kpan, N’guetta Moïse Ehouman, Seydou Tiho
The roads in correlation with the traffic linked to their existences are at the origin of the emission of numerous polluting substances likely to induce disturbances of the growth and the behavioral changes in the organisms living in their vicinities. The pur…
Julie Léancy Gougodo De Mon-Zoni, Arnauld Dave Bangane Konzoba, Jane Akoth Omenda, Mohammad Zaman, Ephrem Kosh-Komba, 1 1
Soil nutrient depletion as a result of continuous cultivation with insufficient external nutrient replenishment is a major challenge in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). A trial using the organic and mineral fertilizer was established in the cassava cropping system o…
Fernand G. Yao, Brahima Kone, Franck M. L. Bahan, Kouadio Amani, Jean L. Essehi, Mamadou B. Ouattara, Konan E. B. Dibi, Brou Kouame, François Lompo, Albert Yao-Kouame
This study is a contribution to improving rice productivity on acidic plateau soils of the tropical rainforest zone. It is based on taking into account the cationic balances of the soil in order to optimize the phosphorus (P) nutrition of rice on these acidic…
Tazeen Fatima Khan, M. M. Golam Rabbani
Microplastics can influence global climate change by regulating the emissions of greenhouse gases from different ecosystems. The effects of microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems are still not well studied particularly greenhouse gases emissions. Thus, we co…
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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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