Mulching management has been used in many places all over the world to improve agricultural sustainability. However, the cycling of carbon in the soil under applications of mulch on sloping arable land is not yet fully understood. A four-year field experiment was carried out in Xiaofuling watershed of Danjiangkou reservoir in China. The object was to evaluate the effects of the application of s...

The transport of runoff with high copper concentrations and sediment loads into adjacent surface waters can have adverse effects on nontarget organisms as a result of increased turbidity and degraded water quality. Runoff from vegetable production utilizing polyethylene mulch can contain up to 35% of applied copper, a widely used fungicide/bactericide that has adverse effects on aquatic organis...

The field experiment was conducted at the Farm of College Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Godhra, Gujarat during year 2018-19 2019-20 to simulate phenology yield rabi maize (Zea mays L.) in sandy loam soil central Gujarat. design split plot with 36 treatment combinations 3 replications including three irrigation regimes (1.0IW/CPE, 0.8IW/CPE 0.6IW/CPE), four mulch conditions (control, ...

Abstract Living mulches are cover crops grown simultaneously with and in close proximity to cash crops. Advantages of living over dead may include increased weed suppression, reduced erosion leaching, better soil health, greater resource-use efficiency. synthetic enhanced agroecosystem biodiversity suitability for a wider range cropping systems. A major disadvantage this practice is the potenti...

The impact of whitefly-transmitted begomoviruses (Geminiviridae) on tomato yields depends on plant age at time of infection, and is greatest during the first 5 weeks after germination (critical period). A preventative strategy designed to minimize contact between the vector and the tomato plant by masking the crop with living ground covers during the critical period was promoted among small-sca...

The use of cypress (Taxodium species) for mulch boomed during the 1990s, and its growth in popularity created concerns about the sustainability of cypress forests in the Southern United States. A combination of factors, including Hurricane Katrina, cypress harvesting practices, and the unique requirements for successful regeneration of cypress drew media attention and fueled debates over sustai...

An experiment was conducted during Rabi season of 2019-20 with the objective evaluating effect mulching and nutrient management practices on growth, yield economics maize (Zea mays L.) at Balindi Research Complex, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Nadia, West Bengal, India clay loam soil. The laid out in Randomized Block Design nine treatment (T) combinations such as T1- Live mulch (Trifoli...

A field experiment, laid out in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with split plot arrangement having four replications, was conducted at the south edge of Loess Plateau, Shaanxi, China to evaluate the responses of winter wheat and summer maize to different water saving management practices involving four mulching and irrigation treatments, i.e., plastic mulch ridge and straw mulch furrow ...

Post-planting weed control methods on abandoned farmland were studied in three fi eld trials in southern Finland using a completely randomized design with four treatments and 30 to 40 replications. Mulches of 60 × 60 cm [sheet mulch – strips of plane waste and plastic fi bre, newspaper – waste paper slurry, wood chips, pure wood fi bre slurry], herbicides [i.e. glyphosate or terbuthylazine alon...

cantaloupe (cucumis melo var reticulatus) belongs to cucurbitaceae family and is cultivated in various parts of iran. polyethylene mulches have recently been used in vegetable growing, for different purposes. to study the effects of different polythylehe mulches on the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of cantaloupe, an experiment was conducted in kaboutar-abad agricultural research ...