Cover crops (CC) are an important low-input strategy in sustainable agricultural systems. The impact of different CC (common vetch, field pea, winter oats, fodder kale, common vetch + oats and pea oats), organic mulch, control treatment-fallow, bio-fertilizer (BF) application, on yield quality sweet maize kernel was evaluated. biomass higher mixtures: as well kale. Kernel its chemical compositi...

Machinery for sowing wheat directly into rice residues has become more common in the rice-wheat systems of the north-west Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia, with increasing numbers of farmers now potentially able to access the benefits of residue retention. However, surface residue retention affects soil water and temperature dynamics, thus the optimum sowing date and irrigation management for...

The most usual type of petroleum mulch, which has been successfully used to combat desertification in large areain Iran for more than thirty years, is produced by heavy residue petroleum cuts. The petroleum mulch consists of awide range of different heavy hydrocarbons such as Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs). PAHs are present atlow level in petroleum mulch, where there is contact with wa...

in order to evaluate the effect of cover crops and mulch management on yield and yield components of safflower (carthamus tinctorius l.), a study was conducted as split-plot based on a complete randomized block design with four replications during 2008-2009. the mulch managements as main factor were consisted of three levels including incorporation of cover crops with soil, harvesting + removin...

A field experiment was conducted during rainy (kharif) seasons of 2020 and 2021 at the research farm ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi to study effect nutrient weed management on crop productivity soil microbial properties in aerobic rice (Oryza sativa L.). Experiment factorial randomized complete block design replicated thrice. Nutrient factor comprised 3 levels, viz. Cont...

Development of insecticide resistance in onion thrips, Thrips tabaci Lindeman (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), populations in onion (Allium spp.) Þelds and the incidence of the T. tabaci transmitted Iris yellow spot virus have stimulated interest in evaluating alternative management tactics. Effects of strawmulch applied in commercial onion Þelds in muck areas of western New York were assessed in 200...

Weed control is an important aspect during the first few years of Christmas tree establishment, as weed competition directly relates to rate growth this time. The objectives study were evaluate efficacy organic mulch and herbicide combinations determine their phytotoxic effects on four different species trees establishment stage: Fraser fir (Abies fraseri (Pursh) Poir), blue spruce (Picea punge...