Background: The success of soil management depends on understanding of how soils respond to agricultural land use practices over time. Nitisols are among the most extensive agricultural soils in the Ethiopian highlands but soil degradation threatens their productive capacity. In this study, the effects of two land use systems, intensive cereal and agroforestry systems, and slope class on physic...

<p>Soil erosion is the most devastating environmental crisis in Ethiopia where loss of soil from cultivated land almost seven times tolerable limit; specifically, Nitisol very susceptible to erosion. To investigate response management and cropping practices on sediment loss, a field experiment was conducted under natural environment Pawi area. Nine treatments combining two tillage methods...

Combined application of organic and mineral fertilizers has been proposed as a measure for sustainable yield intensification mitigation greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, fertilizer effects strongly depend on the soil type still no precise information is available Nitisols in Ethiopia. The study evaluated different ratios biowaste compost (consisting nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), sulphur ...

Treated wastewater (TWW) reuse for crop irrigation has been developing in recent decades areas hampered by severe water shortages. However, humid conditions, the agronomic impacts of supplementary are less and poorly documented. On island Réunion, we measured sugarcane yield quality on a Nitisol over 2 years providing 2600 mm TWW or (control) as supplement to 3500 rainfall. Meanwhile, with same...