the purpose of this study was to investigate economic impacts (including production costs, mechanization growth, changes in productivity per area, changes in the size of the cultivated area and productivity of production inputs) and ecological impacts (including protecting the environment from degradation and soil erosion as well as sustainable use of chemical fertilizers) of rural agricultural...

introduction: weather features and their variations have an important role in the yield of agricultural products, especially in rain-fed conditions. the main metrological variables that affected yields consist of precipitation, temperature, soil moisture and solar radiation. also, drought is one of the major constraints to production, especially the mid-season drought which occurs during the po...

a 2-years (2007-2009) field study was carried out at the college of agriculture, shiraz university, to evaluate the influence of crop residues management and nitrogen (n) rates on soil quality and barley grain protein under dryland conditions. the experiment was conducted as strip split plot with four replications. horizontal plots were three crop residues rates (0, 750 and 1500 kg ha-1), verti...

In a survey conducted in 1984 in Essex, Lambton, and Middlesex Counties of Ontario, Canada, greater incidences of head blight and greater concentrations of deoxynivalenol in grain were observed in fields of winter wheat planted after corn than in those planted after soybeans, barley, and mixed grains. Neither head blight nor deoxynivalenol level were correlated significantly with soil P, K, or ...

soil enzyme activities can be used as indicators of soil quality for assessing the sustainability of agricultural ecosystems. the objective of this study was to determine the effects of barley residue input rate, burning, urea fertilizer and tillage management on activities of alkaline phosphatase and urease under field conditions, after a period of 90 days. the experiment was carried out based...

Climate change has resulted in increased vulnerability of smallholder farmers in marginal areas of Zimbabwe where there is limited capacity to adapt to changing climate. One approach that has been used to adapt to changing climate is in-field water harvesting for improved crop yields in the semi- arid regions of Zimbabwe. This review analyses the history of soil and water conservation in Zimbab...

in order to evaluate of pea, bean, lentil, wheat, rape and barley sensitivity to foramsulforun, rimsulforun and nicosulforun herbicides soil residue, a pot experiment was conducted at ferdowsi university of mashhad. experimental type was completely randomized design in factorial arrangement with three replications. treatments included herbicides (rimsulforun, foramsulforun and nicosulforun), he...

A simulation and optimization model was developed and applied to an irrigated area in Delta, Utah to optimize the economic benefit, simulate the water demand, and search the related crop area percentages with specified water supply and planted area constraints. The user interface model begins with the weather generation submodel, which produces daily weather data, which is based on long-term mo...

of Research Findings The project has now completed two crop-years of experimentation. Four more crop-years are required for all crop rotations to complete a full cycle. This report covers the 2004-05 cropyear results. CBARC experiment (Moro): Grain yields of winter wheat following fallow (conventional or chemical) produced significantly higher yields than yields of annual cropping systems invol...

Sustainable food production depends critically on the development of crop genotypes that exhibit high yield under reduced nutrient inputs. Rooting traits have been widely advocated as being able to influence optimal plant performance, while breeding-based improvements in yield of spring barley suggest that this species is a good model crop. To date, however, molecular genetics knowledge has not...