Indigenous rhizobia in soil present a competition barrier to the establishment of inoculant strains, possibly leading to inoculation failure. In this study, we used the natural diversity of rhizobial species and numbers in our fields to define, in quantitative terms, the relationship between indigenous rhizobial populations and inoculation response. Eight standardized inoculation trials were co...

The Indian population is growing rapidly (1.25 billion) and it has to fulfill its food and nutrition requirement. A collaborative strategy should be adopted for increasing productivity by intensifying available land use system. Intercropping is advanced management practices of soil fertility status, consisting of cultivating two or more crops in the same space at the same time, which have been ...

In Ethiopia, smallholder farmers are responsible for most food production. Though yield levels in grain crops have improved greatly over the years, they still much lower than their potential. The source of improvements and causes those gaps not well understood. To explain drivers current sources four major cereals (teff, maize, wheat, sorghum) three legumes (faba bean, common soybean), we acces...

Competition among component crops in an intercropping system is important factor that influences productivity. To realize the benefit of terms higher productivity per unit area, competitive behaviour needs to be quantified. As such, experiment was conducted determine cassava-legume-based systems. The a factorial randomized complete design with three replications. treatments consisted seven crop...