adsorption of anilofos was studied in four soils (topsoil from alfisol, inceptisol, oxisol and vertisol). the order of adsorption of anilofos was vertisol > oxisol > alfisol > inceptisol. the soil sorption coefficient k and the soil organic carbon sorption coefficient koc are the basic parameters used for describing the environmental fate of the herbicides. in top soil the calculated k values ...

In the agricultural regions of Burkina Faso, urban solid waste fertilizers were usually applied. This activity is likely to contaminate soils and expose populations serious diseases. study aims assess rate heavy metal (Cd, Cu, Mn, Pb, Zn, Ni, Cr) contamination in both lixisol vertisol evaluate removal efficiency metals using Vetiver grass on different two mixed contaminated soils. A pot experim...

In the highly fertile and productive soils of Pampa Region Argentina, constraints on soil water regime as a consequence decline in aggregates stability development platy structures, are observed. Most agricultural plots this region, even under no tillage, subjected to simplification crop sequences (low cropping intensity) with predominance soybean. On contrary, some farmers intensifying crops s...

Endosulfan has been applied to control numerous insects in a variety of food and non-food crops. Limited information is available on dynamics of this pesticide in the soil. The objective of this research was to determine the adsorption-desorption behavior of the alpha (alpha) and beta (beta) endosulfan in a Vertisol from the southeast region of Turkey, where cotton is the main crop in the large...

559 Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 76:2012 Posted online 6 Feb. 2012 doi:10.2136/sssaj2011.0060 Received 16 Feb. 2011. *Corresponding author ([email protected]). © Soil Science Society of America, 5585 Guilford Rd., Madison WI 53711 USA All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recordi...

Vetiver buffer strips are widely employed to reduce fluxes of eroding soil and associated nutrients and pollutants from catchments into waterways. The physical processes involved in sediment reduction by buffer strips have been examined in a number of studies and various models have been developed to describe some of these processes. However, the sedimentremoval efficiency is complex as it is t...

Global change-induced alterations in litter quality and soil moisture regime will likely impact grassland C and N dynamics, but how these changes interact with edaphic properties across the landscape is unclear. We measured the effects of litter quality, soil type, soil moisture level, and soil drying-rewetting frequency (D-RW) on microbial C and N mineralization of litter and soil organic matt...

Pesticides are usually applied simultaneously or serially for groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) crop protection. This type of pesticide application often leads to a combined contamination of pesticides and their residues in the soil. Pesticides used in groundnut cultivation – monocrotophos and chlorpyrifos, singly and in combination with mancozeb and carbendazim, respectively – were tested for th...

The present study is one step towards sustainable agricultural practices. The results observed for chemical properties like pH, electrical conductivity, available nitrogen, available phosphorus, available potassium, available sulphur, zinc content, organic carbon content and organic matter of vertisol soil indicated that these properties were significantly enchanced at different stages of Soybe...