Low soil health indicates poor productivity soil optimal for supporting agricultural businesses because it will reduce the production of agricultural commodities for vegetable crop farmers in Ternate City which are carried out under plantation crops. This study aims to determine...
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Research Article10.9734/ajsspn/2023/v9i2176
Noman Amjad, Isbah Akhtar, Amir Hameed, Faizan Ahmad, Farhan Ali, Muhammad Ahmad, Imran Ullah, Umbreen Bibi, Nida Altaf, Sanaullah & Umer Iqbal Ahmad·Asian Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition·2023
Heavy metal toxicity in the soil causes harmful effects on plants as well as on human health. They are introduced into the soil by different means like smelting, burning of coal, and excess use of fertilizers, sewage sludge, and pesticides. Among different heavy metals Copper and...
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Research Article10.9734/ajsspn/2023/v9i2177
Background: Availability of accurate soil data is necessary in understanding the nature of the soil and its status of the agricultural potential. Aim: Thus, a research was carried out to investigate physicochemical and morphological properties of the soils and characterize, class...
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Research Article10.9734/ajsspn/2023/v9i2175
Field experiments were conducted during the 2020 and 2021 cropping seasons at the research fields of CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute located at Nyankpala in the Guinea savannah agroecology of Ghana. The objective was to test the effect of genotype and plant geometry...
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Research Article10.9734/ajsspn/2023/v9i1174
Organic source of nutrient has effect on soil physico-chemical properties, growth and yield of cabbage. To determine the effect of organic source of nutrients on soil physio-chemical properties, growth and yield of cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata), field experiment was c...
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Research Article10.9734/ajsspn/2023/v9i1171
Coffee production in Côte d'Ivoire has been declining sharply for more than twenty years due to degradation in soil fertility status. The objective of this study was to map the mineral requirements of coffee trees in different production regions and to recommend immediate and lon...
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Research Article10.9734/ajsspn/2023/v9i1170
Aims: Pakistan is facing a severe water shortage and the situation is further aggravated due to elevated temperature, leading to drastic yield reduction of quinoa. Hence, there is a dire need to maintain or increase agricultural production by utilizing sustainable methods of prod...
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Research Article10.9734/ajsspn/2023/v9i1169
Aims: Soils and plant densities are two of the major factors affecting sweet corn growth and yield. Although many worldwide studies were done to evaluate the effect of these factors on sweet corn, it is still necessary to do more study in this area because environmental factors w...
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Research Article10.9734/ajsspn/2023/v9i1164
Soil characterization and classification are prerequisites for better agricultural productivity and sustainable soil fertility management. This study was previously conducted to characterize and classify DelboAtwaro, a watershed in southern Ethiopia. Three pedons classes were ins...
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Research Article10.9734/ajsspn/2022/v8i4166
Agro homoeopathy is a boon now a days, where homoeopathy is acting like a fertilizer, insecticide and add more nutritive value. It is helping the public with organic veggies. This study is regarding boron toxicity in Solanum lycopersicum, where with hydrophonic system boron toxic...
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Research Article10.9734/ajsspn/2022/v8i4167
Arliane Nicole Tchekambou Tetchou, Josiane Demlabin Sonmo, Armanda Nguiffo, Jean Pierre Tchouankoue, Jean Pierre Nguetnkam & Suzi Huff Theodoro·Asian Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition·2022
This study evaluates the fertilizing potential of micaschist powder in sugarcane farming on ferrallitic soils of the Mbandjok area in Cameroon. These soils are poor in exchangeable cations and assimil able phosphorus, very acidic, with low to moderate CEC. An experimental design,...
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Research Article10.9734/ajsspn/2022/v8i4165
The study which was aimed at detecting the effects of the properties of Taraxacum officinale on the characteristics of the soils was carried out in a garden in Use Offot Community in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state using the purposive sampling method. The samples were collected at a depth o...
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Research Article10.9734/ajsspn/2022/v8i4163
A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of different Nitrogen levels on the yield performance of four rice hybrid in two consecutive Monsoon Season of 2020 and 2021. The experiment was conducted at Agronomy Research Farm, Acharya Narendra Deva University of Agricu...
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Research Article10.9734/ajsspn/2022/v8i4162
Background: In newly reclaimed areas, some improper farming practices like using heavy machines in tillage, adding excessive quantity of fertilizers, irrigation by flooding method and intensity cultivation could affect the soil physical properties. Objective: Therefore, eighty s...
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Research Article10.9734/ajsspn/2022/v8i3161
Yasser Thabet A. Moustafa, Nabil S. A. Mustafa, Mohamad F. El-Dahshouri, Sameh Mohamed Mohamed El-Sawy Ghonim, Raghda Zuhair, Lixin Zhang & M. A. Hassoub·Asian Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition·2022
Climatic change and its negative impacts may consider as one of the big global challenges, and eliminate soil and water availability time by time. Adding organic fertilizers (i.e. vermicompost) as soil amelioration may consider as one of effective approaches in order to recover...
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Research Article10.9734/ajsspn/2022/v8i3160