this research delves into investigating the effects of different soil management practices on soil physical properties, yield and yield’s components of irrigated wheat. this experimental design was administered in the form of the nested testing with three treatments (no tillage, low tillage and conventional tillage) and three replicates in some of the farmlands of chenran township. the results ...

Interactions between elevated [CO2] and soil water availability have the potential impact on crops and future food security of the world. The study was conducted to investigate vegetative growth response of soybeans under two [CO2] (380 and 800 μmol mol−1) with three soil moisture levels in controlled environment. Slow growth rate and altered crop phenology of soybeans were observed under eleva...

This research provides an optimal design of structural parameters for ring-die granulators used in the cool briquetting process. Experimental research on the briquetting rate of pellets was carried out for three kinds of crop straws with different granularities, moisture ratios, and lengthdiameter ratios of the die hole. Results showed that: when the swoop angle β was 45 and the diameter ratio ...

In a perspective to develop an inversion approach for estimating surface soil moisture of crop fields from Sentinel-1/2 data (radar and optical sensors), the Water Cloud Model (WCM) was calibrated from C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) values collected over crops fields and grasslands. The soil contribution that depends on soil moisture...

Proven techniques of soil moisture conservation were imposed in two consecutive seasons (2002 and 2003) under a rainfed alfisol ecosystem in order to investigate the physiological response of cowpea as the test crop. The impulsive variations in soil moisture status with reference to these techniques were found to influence the physiological and biochemical parameters of cowpea significantly. Mu...

The survival of Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum (Xcm), the cause of banana bacterial wilt disease in soil and infected banana debris was investigated. Viable cells of the pathogen were estimated on culture medium. The survival of the pathogen in soil was influenced by soil moisture and soil treatment. The survival period of Xcm was reduced 3 times when soil moisture content was reduced fr...

Beef cattle manure can serve as a valuable source of nutrients for crop production. However, emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) after land application may pose an odor nuisance to downwind populations. This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of land application method, diet, soil moisture content, and time since manure application on VOC emissions. Manure was collected from...

Grain storage managers could improve the quality of stored grain if they could directly monitor stored grain moisture content, which is a key indicator of stored grain quality and an early indicator of deterioration. However, currently available sensors are too expensive and lack the necessary reliability in that harsh environment. A new fringing field capacitive (FFC) sensor was tested to dete...

in order to evaluate millet (panicum miliaceum l.) and cowpea (vigna unguiculata l.) intercropping, an experiment was conducted during 2008-2009 at agriculture research center of zabol university, iran. the experiment was as randomized complete block design with three replications. treatment s consisted of sole crop of millet, sole crop of cowpea, 25% millet + 100% cowpea, 50% millet + 50% cowp...