Film mulching is an important agricultural practices used to improve crop productivity. Field experiments were conducted using maize (Zea mays L. ) to determine the effect of film mulching on soil physical properties and maize yield in 2006 and 2007 cropping seasons. The experiment was a randomized complete black design (RCBD) with four film treatments viz. Black film (BM), white film (WM), Bla...

Banana (Musa spp.) is a crop with outstanding economic and social expression throughout the world. The objective of this study was to investigate effect different mulches types in growth production postharvest banana ‘BRS Platina’ not irrigated. experiment conducted farm Federal University Lavras (UFLA). Micropropagated plants cultivar BRS were planted field spacing 2.5 × 3.0 m (1333 ·ha-1), wi...

Several polyethylene plastics were evaluated as potential materials for disinfesting small volumes of soil containing nematodes. Bursaphelenchus seani, cultured on the fungus Monilinia fructicola in petri dishes, was used to bioassay the survival and reproductive capability of nematodes buried 7.5 cm deep in Margate fine sand (soil moisture = 4.9%). The soil was exposed to sunlight for 6 days i...

To compare the soil water balance, yield and water use efficiency (WUE) of spring maize under different mulching types in the Loess Plateau, a 7-year field experiment was conducted in the Changwu region of the Loess Plateau. Three treatments were used in this experiment: straw mulch (SM), plastic film mulch (PM) and conventional covering without mulch (CK). Results show that the soil water chan...

Practical and sustainable water management systems are needed in arid regions due to shortages climate change. Therefore, an experiment was initiated winter (WS) spring (SS), investigate integrating deficit irrigation, associated with partial root drying (PRD) soil mulching, under subsurface drip irrigation on squash yield, fruit quality, use efficiency (IWUE). Two mulching treatments, transpar...