Since the beginning of agriculture, humans have endeavored to manage weed flora to mitigate yield losses. Post-war, the intensive use of synthetic plant protection products and mineral fertilizers significantly boosted agricultural production. Herbicides emerged as highly effective tools for weed control. However, their usage exacts a considerable ...
Published in Frontiers in Agronomy
Urea is widely used as nitrogen (N) source for rice fertilization in Costa Rica, despite its low efficiency linked to ammonia losses. To assess urea management alternatives, two field experiments were conducted in the Central Pacific region of Costa Rica to study the effect of N-(n-butyl) thiophosphoric triamide (NBPT) on rice yield and N use effic...
Soil organisms are impacted by a wide range of physical and chemical disturbances in intensive cropping systems. The development of cropping systems less disturbing to soil biodiversity requires to understand the consequences of various practices on soil organisms. However, most studies characterize the effects of cropping systems by distinguishing...
Published in Acta Technologica Agriculturae
The degradation of chernozems and increased soil erosion led to the search for more advanced methods of tillage, taking into account climatic conditions, the quantity and quality of crop residues, and the volume of fertilizer application. The aim of the study was to establish the effect of various methods of basic tillage in the presence of precedi...
Published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Farmers faced with increasingly limited access to freshwater for irrigation are utilizing dry farming techniques to produce fruit, vegetable, and grain crops. Defined as crop production during a dry season using little or no irrigation, dry farming relies on water stored in the soil and requires specialized soil management, healthy soil biology, an...
Published in BIO Web of Conferences
In thi article, the medium-fiber cotton variety “Ravnaq-1” was processed at different 60 cm (control), 70 cm, and 76 cm row spacings in a cultivator adopted (in Uzbekistan) and a milling cultivator with a 76 cm row spacing, along with the theoretical seedling thickness. The analysis results of the scientific research on dry mass accumulation of cot...
Description of the subject. Large amounts of nitrogen may be released after grassland ploughing, and no reliable method is available for routine laboratories to help farmers managing these cultural practices. Objectives. The objective of this study was to assess whether short-term anaerobic potentially mineralizable nitrogen (PMN) is a reliable est...
Climatic factors influencing weed emergence and development are poorly understood in tropical regions. An experiment was conducted in Reunion Island to study the impact of tillage date and irrigation on the emergence and development of weeds. The plot was tilled on four dates during a year and divided into two zones, with or without irrigation. Cov...
The loss of biodiversity has become a major concern in the 21 st century. The current agricultural model is one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss; however, agriculture can also help maintain and even promote biodiversity. Therefore, understanding of the positive and negative effects of agricultural practices on biodiversity needs to be incre...
Published in Frontiers in Agronomy
Introduction Yield and its stability are both vital characteristics to evaluate the viability of cropping systems. However, the current frames of field research hardly allow an accurate evaluation of short-term effect stability. Therefore, over nine German environments (three years and three locations), first crop, maize, total harvested dry biomas...
