Literature reporting the development of conservation tillage and the research that has been conducted on nematode control in crops grown in conservation tillage systems is reviewed. Effects of different types of conservation tillage on population densities of various nematode species in monocropping and multicropping systems, effects of tillage on nematode distribution in the soil profile, effe...

Plant-parasitic nematodes are major constraints to the productivity of tropical farming operations. Intensive land use and climatic conditions favorable to nematode development contribute to increased crop losses due to these pests. Many farmers in developing tropical countries have limited resources and management options. Cropping systems research is a relatively low-cost, low-input method of...

Tropical wildlands and their biodiversity will survive in perpetuity only through their integration into human society. One protocol for integration is to explicitly recognize conserved tropical wildlands as wildland gardens. A major way to facilitate the generation of goods and services by a wildland garden is to generate a public-domain Yellow Pages for its organisms. Such a Yellow Pages is p...

Climate change is often cited in the ‘collapse’ of complex societies and linked to agricultural resilience or lack thereof. In this article, authors consider how demand affected strategies as farmers navigated transformations Late Harappan phase ( c . 1900–1700 BC) Indus tradition. Through modelling monocropping/multicropping, low/high yield crops, supply-driven versus flexible production, vari...

Double cropping is not presently a common practice in Kazakhstan. The long-term climate averages, however, suggest that the should be possible most southern portions of country. study described herein represents first simultaneous evaluation silage and grain corn crops sowing SE Germplasm was chosen such physiological maturity could theoretically reached if seeded following winter triticale oil...

Worldwide there are between 10 and 11 million hectares of coconuts. With the marked fluctuations and long term decline in copra and coconut oil prices the integration of livestock and coconuts is economically increasingly attractive. Traditionally used for weed control in plantations so that coconuts could be located, cattle (and sheep and goats) are increasingly seen as important parts of the ...

The middle and lower Huai River Valley, located between the Yangtze Yellow Rivers, was a key transitional zone for northward spread of rice southward migration millet agriculture in central-eastern China during Holocene. Knowing when millets here, how they were combined with mixed farming, reasons their spread, temporal variation cropping patterns is crucial significance to development our unde...

Along with maize and cassava, common bean is a critical component of diets for many of the developing countries in the world. Beans are an important source of family income and a critical component of the daily diet within African countries where the population is projected to double by 2020. As such, it is the most important edible food legume in the world’s diet. It represents 50% of the grai...

Abstract Organic amendments can improve soil quality which has knock-on environmental and agronomic benefits. However, the use of new emerging organic such as biochar brown coal waste (BCW) in systems requires continuous holistic assessments for robust consensus building their agricultural applications. To examine application BCW woodchip (BIO) agroecosystems, secondary data from literature on ...