Application of organic amendments is known to improve soil fertility, soil physical properties, one of which is water holding capacity. Incorporating manures into the top soil layer makes the layer fertile and hold more water, thus making corn roots thrive in this layer. Our results showed a significant increase in sweet corn root’s growth in the top 15 cm under organic amendments compared to t...

Nacrtak Extracting logs from stump to landings causes extensive damages to forest stand and soil. In this research two parcels adjacent to each other were selected in order to assess the effect of traditional and mechanized methods of logging on regeneration and soil compaction. A skid trail and a mule trail with similar longitudinal slope, skidding direction and total volume of extracted wood ...

In this study, a fixed-site field experiment was conducted to study the influence of different combinations of tillage and straw incorporation management on carbon storage in different-sized soil aggregates and on crop yield after three years of rice-wheat rotation. Compared to conventional tillage, the percentages of >2 mm macroaggregates and water-stable macroaggregates in rice-wheat double-c...

background and objectives:anionic polyacrylamide application as an organic conditioner alone or in combination with organic material, can improve soil properties. the objective of this study was to investigate the influence some organic conditioners on mean weight diameter (mwd) and dispersible clay percentage (dcp).materials and methods:soil samples collected from the top 30-cm layer of two lo...

the increasing use of nitrogen fertilizers due to high dynamics of nitrate in the soil would be a serious threat to groundwater, and therefore, to thuman health. this study is aimed to investigate the disperdivity values of nitrate in the coarse, medium and fine sandy soils in the short travel distance of 20, 40 and 80 cm in vitro using the hydrus-1d model. for this purpose, pure potassium nitr...

root morphological and distribution responses of signal grass (brachiaria decumbens) to long-term cattle grazing were examined in a tropical pasture in malaysia. the treatments were no grazing by cattle and grazing at a moderate stocking density (2.7 animal unit/ha) under rotational grazing for 33 years. the method consists of taking soil core using a soil corer to a depth of 30 cm and extracti...