Search Results - subject:"Soil Quality"

Soil properties in a sugarcane plantation after the application of treated sewage effluent and phosphogypsum in Brazil

Blum, Julius; Herpin, Uwe; Melfi, Adolpho José; … - In: Agricultural Water Management 115 (2012) C, pp. 203-216

In a field experiment performed in Lins County (São Paulo State, Brazil), treated sewage effluent (TSE) irrigation increased sugarcane yield but caused an excessive increase in the exchangeable sodium percentage (ESP) and clay dispersion after 16months due to an intense irrigation regime...

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Sequestering carbon in soils of agro-ecosystems

Lal, R. - In: Food Policy 36 (2011) S1, pp. 33-33

a restorative land use and adoption of recommended management practices, can enhance the SOC pool, improve soil quality … the agroecosystems is 1.2–3.1billiontonsC/yr. Improvement in soil quality, by increase in the SOC pool of 1tonC/ha/yr in …

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BIOMASS FROM CROP RESIDUES: COST AND SUPPLY ESTIMATES

Gallagher, Paul W.; Dikeman, Mark; Fritz, John; Wailes, … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2003

The supply of harvested crop residues as a feed stock for energy products is estimated in this report. The estimates account for economic and environmental factors governing residue supply. The supply results span major agricultural crops in four distinct cropping regions of the United States,...

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Measuring soil quality dynamics A role for economists, and implications for economic analysis

Kim, Kwansoo; Barham, Bradford L.; Coxhead, Ian - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 25 (2001) 1

Measuring soil quality is extremely difficult, yet it has clear economic importance. In particular, there is a great … deal of empirical interest in the dynamics of soil quality evolution when land managers respond to policies and other … estimate the model in a way that allows the recovery of a dynamic measure of soil quality whose evolution depends on variations …

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Modeling economic and agro-environmental dynamics of potato production systems

Khakbazan, Mohammad; Hamilton, Cliff; Moulin, Alan; … - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 11 (2009) 1, pp. 65-93

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Soil degradation as a reason for inadequate human nutrition

Lal, R. - In: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production … 1 (2009) 1, pp. 45-57

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THE ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF CROP ROTATION SYSTEMS: EVIDENCE FROM THE LITERATURE

Gebremedhin, Berhanu; Schwab, Gerald - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 1998

and disease cycles. Decision criteria to choose among competing crop rotation systems can include impact on soil quality … society. Keywords: Agricultural sustainability, external inputs, soil quality and fertility, environmental quality, crop …

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Chapter 57 Soil Quality and Agricultural Development

Crosson, Pierre - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2911-2932). 2007

This chapter evaluates soil quality and agricultural development. Estimates of soil erosion, in terms of losses to farm …

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Carbon Management in Agricultural Soils

Lal, R. - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 12 (2007) 2, pp. 303-322

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Soil Fertility Quality and Agricultural Sustainable Development in the Black Soil Region of Northeast China

Wen, Dazhong; Liang, Wenju - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 3 (2001) 1, pp. 31-43

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