Low productivity characterizes the production of groundnut among smallholder farmers in Malawi. There is a need to explore options capable of increasing the productivity of the crop sustainably more especially under the changing climate. Against this background, experiments were...
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Research Article10.9734/aprj/2020/v5i130097
Integrated soil fertility management was promoted on-farm during the 2018/2019 cropping season in Thyolo, Phalombe, Mulanje and Zomba districts of southern Malawi, in purposively selected extension planning areas (EPAs). Sixty farmers, fifteen from each district were involved. Tr...
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Research Article10.9734/aprj/2020/v4i230082
In Malawi, inoculating soybean with rhizobia, has been advocated for decades as a way of boosting productivity through enhancement of biological nitrogen fixation. The effectiveness of this strategy however, has been constrained by the low soil fertility status of soils in Malawi...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2020/v3i230069
Inherent low soil nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) is one of the major hindrances of increased soybean productivity in Malawian soils. Although, inoculation of legumes with rhizobia, has been advocated for decades as a way of boosting leguminous crops’ productivity through biologi...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/24905
Kennedy Masamba, Austin T. Phiri, Obed Mwenye, Margaret Chiipanthenga, Felix Chipojola & Willard Mbewe·Asian Plant Research Journal·2020
In Malawi the demand of the use of mineral acidifying fertilizer by farmers for sustenance of high crop yields is increasing. The soaring demand is a pointer to the loss of humic substances in the soil and the resultant poor soil health. There is potential however to reduce the a...
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Research Article10.9734/aprj/2020/v5i230103