Conservation tillage combined with cover crops or mulching may enhance natural enemy activity in agroecosystems by reducing soil disturbance and increasing habitat structural complexity. In particular, weed seed predation can increase with vegetation cover and reduced tillage, indicating that mulches may improve the quality of the habitat for weed seed foraging. The purpose of this study was to...

In dryland agriculture, mulching methods and nitrogen application have been extensively adopted to improve water use efficiency increase crop yield. However, there has a scarcity of research on the combined effects types growth yield soybean (Glycine max L.). present study, four levels (N0: 0 kg N ha−1, N1: 60 N2: 120 N3: 180 ha−1) (NM: no mulching, SM: straw FM: film SFM: mulching) were set so...

Microplastic distribution is non-homogeneous in agricultural soil following plastic film degradation. However, the of microplastics by shape and particle size different aggregates remains unknown. To elucidate microplastic shapes sizes with increasing years mulching, four paired fields mulching (FM) no (NM) were examined at 1, 5, 10, 20 after continuous mulching. An increase 0.053–0.25 mm diame...

Barley straw serves as livestock feed and mulch for soil water conservation in the mixed barley-livestock systems of Ethiopian highlands. High demand barley biomass system creates competition between two uses. This study aimed to identify determinants utilization feed. Data on production use were collected from 236 households using a structured questionnaire. Use purposes at three levels, 0–15%...

A field experiment was conducted during Zaid 2022 at Crop Research Farm, Department of Agronomy, SHUATS, Prayagraj (U.P) on the topic “Effect Phosphorous and Mulching Growth Yield Green gram (Vigna radiate L.)”, to study response green under various mulching techniques such as, Saw dust mulching, Paddy Without along with combination Phosphorus (20, 40 60 kg/ha). The results revealed that signif...

In the initial phase of coffee crop, control weeds and water availability for establishment plants is a concern. The polyethylene cover can positively influence chemical biological characteristics soil and, consequently, root system. objective this work was to evaluate morphology system using mulching different widths colors. Coffee planted in December 2016 cultivar Topázio MG-1190. A randomize...

Drought is one of the main factors limiting agricultural planting and production; gravel mulching an effective inhibiting evaporation water-saving pattern in arid regions. In this study, experiments were conducted to study soil moisture effect regression model with different mulching, content compared that mulched particle sizes, thickness layer years. The results showed that: 1) cumulative was...

A field experiment with the objectives to understand evaluation of mulching effects on weed control in blackgram production under irrigated condition involving two factors viz., (paddy straw mulching, sugarcane trash no mulching) and herbicidal treatments (pendimethalin pre-emergence (PE) @ 1.0 Kg/ha, pendimathalin + Imazethapyr (pre-mix) Valor 32% EC Hand weeding 15 30 days after sowing, weedy...