Nutrient depletion is one of the major causes that contribute to decline in soil productivity in the highlands of Ethiopia. It is generally a reversible constraint as long as soil test based fertilizer application is in place. However, Ethiopian subsistence agriculture has suffered for years due to lack of proper knowledge to combat nutrient depletion. To date, blanket application is the tradit...

background & aim: nowadays, tendency to agricultural biotic product sustainable agriculture instead of chemical ‎fertilizers has been going up in all over the world. so, most pharmaceutical industries prefer to ‎use raw material which is produced from organic and stable system. producing organic ‎medicinal plants, such as peppermint, seems important in economical, ecological and ‎bio enviro...

Nitrogen (N) fertilization potentially affects soil N mineralization and leaching, and can enhance NH3 volatilization, thus impacting crop production. A fertilizer experiment with five levels of N addition (0, 79, 147, 215 and 375 kg N ha(-1)) was performed in 2009 and 2010 in a maize field in Huanghuaihai region, China, where > 300 kg N ha(-1) has been routinely applied to soil during maize gr...

Sustainable agriculture can increase the efficiency of resource utilization, provide longer productivity and create a balance in the environment. A field experiment was conducted to study the use of organic and chemical fertilizers on biomass, essential oil content and essential oil yield as well as chemical compositions of Dracocephalum polychaetum Burnm in the first and second cutting. The tr...

application of biofertilizers, especially plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (pgpr) is one of the most important strategies for plant nutrition compared to chemical fertilizers, especially in sustainable management of agroecosystems. in order to evaluate the effect of pesodomonas bacteria strains and chemical phosphate fertilizer on yield and yield components of wheat the kavir cultivar an ex...

We carried out a one year (2002) study of phosphorus (P) loss from soil to water in three nested grassland catchments with known P input in chemical fertilizer and animal liquid slurry applications. Chemical fertilizer was applied to the grasslands between March and September and animal slurry was applied over the twelve months. The annual chemical P fertilizer applications for the 17 and 211 h...