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Xiushuang Li, Jianglan Shi, Juan Chen and Xiaohong Tian
Legume green manure (LGM) is an excellent organic amendment conducive to soil quality and nutrient cycling; however, the use of LGM was once repealed in the rain-fed agriculture of northern China. The objective was to investigate the effects that plantin...
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Shengcai Qiang, Yan Zhang, Junliang Fan, Fucang Zhang, Wen Lin, Min Sun, Zhiqiang Gao and Xiwang Tang
Ridge and furrow plastic mulch (RFPM) and nitrogen (N) application are effective strategies for improving crop productivity in China?s Loess Plain. However, it is not clear how the ridge?furrow ratio and nitrogen fertilizer type (NT) affect the use of wa...
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Mengyang Wu, Simeng Cui, Liting Qiu, Pingping Zhang and Xinchun Cao
Although irrigation systems largely sustain global agricultural production, their efficiency is often alarmingly low. While irrigation water (blue water) is critical for the water-saving irrigation of rice with a high water demand, the process and effici...
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Ding Zhou, Hui Wang, Xiangxiang Wang, Fangfang Wang, Jiabao Zhang and Donghao Ma
To apply AquaCrop to the study of agricultural soil moisture in the North China Plain, a water-treatment experiment on summer maize was carried out at the Fengqiu experimental station of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2017 to 2018. A water treatmen...
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Xiaotong Xin, Zhanxiang Sun, Jibing Xiao, Wei Bai, Zhe Zhang and Han Yan
How to improve the utilizations of water and nutrient is a research hotspot of sloping farmland in semi-arid and rain-fed areas. In this study, the spatial changes of soil moisture, nutrients, and roots under different tillage modes, as well as the effic...
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Keshav Bhattarai and Ambika P. Adhikari
This paper responds to the research question, ?can urban farming in Nepal help create sustainable cities?? Especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, urban residents have begun to realize that food transported from long distances is not always reliable. Urb...
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Hope Mwanake, Bano Mehdi-Schulz, Karsten Schulz, Nzula Kitaka, Luke O. Olang, Jakob Lederer and Mathew Herrnegger
Poor agricultural practices among small-scale sub-Saharan African farmers can lead to soil erosion and reduce agricultural productivity. However, information on such practices is normally not well documented, making it challenging to design future mitiga...
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Helani Perera, Nipuna Senaratne, Miyuru B. Gunathilake, Nitin Mutill and Upaka Rathnayake
Satellite Rainfall Products (SRPs) are now in widespread use around the world as a better alternative for scarce observed rain gauge data. Upon proper analysis of the SRPs and observed rainfall data, SRP data can be used in many hydrological applications...
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Michele Ferrari, Paolo Piccardo, Justine Vernet and Francesca Cirisano
One of the most important factors determining a significant reduction in optical devices? efficiency is the accumulation of soiling substances such as dust, which, especially in solar power plants, implies higher costs and materials ageing. The use of su...
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Victor Hugo Ramírez-Builes and Jürgen Küsters
Coffee (Coffea spp.) represents one of the most important sources of income and goods for the agricultural sector in Central America, Colombia, and the Caribbean region. The sustainability of coffee production at the global and regional scale is under th...
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