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
A. I. Sodimu, G. L. Lapkat, N. O. Oladele, O. Osunsina, R. Suleiman & T. A. Awobona·Asian Soil Research Journal·2020
The preliminary study was carried out to evaluate the growth performance of Jatropha curcas seedlings on different soils at the nursery of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization Afaka, Kaduna. Farm land soil, forest soil and granulated iron stone soil were sourced within t...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2020/v3i230068
This paper presents soil quality as affected by dumped municipal solid waste. Landfill leachate was collected from a hole dug 10 m away from the waste dump site for laboratory analysis. Soil samples were also collected from four trial pits in the dumpsites at the depth of 0.3, 0....
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2020/v3i230067
Field trials were conducted during 2017 and 2018 rainy season, to investigate the effect of nitrogen fertilizer rates and time of application on the growth and yield of cowpea. The treatment consisted of three levels of urea: 0, 40, 80 kg N ha-1 and the times of fertilizer applic...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2020/v3i130066
M. O. Nwachukwu, J. N. Azorji, L. A. Adjero, M. C. Green, C. E. Igwe & R. I. A. Nnadozie·Asian Soil Research Journal·2020
This study investigated the impacts of spent engine oil on the physicochemical properties of soil, soil's microbial population and growth of Capsicum annuum. It covered assessment of different levels of contamination (0, 20, 40, 60 and 80%) in soil; which represents the degree of...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2020/v3i130064
Plants, unlike animals are naturally able to synthesize whatever compounds they need, require more than a dozen different elements [majorly Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium (NPK)] as such. This study investigated the effect(s) of application of cow dung (CD) and NPK fertilizer...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2020/v3i130065
Sesame is one of the most popular oil crops in the Western Tigray Ethiopia. Blended fertilizers containing N, P, S, Zn and B have been recommended to ameliorate site specific nutrient deficiencies in different districts of Tigray. Field experiment was conducted during rainfall se...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2020/v3i130063
Kamrun Nahar, M. Jahiruddin, M. Rafiqul Islam, Soyema Khatun, M. Roknuzzaman & Md. Tipu Sultan·Asian Soil Research Journal·2020
The experiment was conducted in the research farm at Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) to investigate the zinc biofortification ability of rice grain at different doses of zinc fertilization. In this experiment two rice varieties (BRRI dhan28 and Binadhan-16) and five dose...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2020/v3i130062
Md. Safiqul Moula, Rafeza Begum, Manik C. Roy, Md. Nazmul Islam & Md. Imran U. Sarkar·Asian Soil Research Journal·2020
Aims: An experiment to quantify the changes in soil fertility in terms of available nutrient content was carried out between 1995 to 2016. Study Design: The design of the study was a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD). Place and Duration of Study: Bheramara upazilla of Kuaht...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2019/v2i430060
Potassium and sulfur are among the most important nutrients limiting sesame production. EthioSIS soil testing map indicate that nutrients such as K and S are deficient in the study site. Study was carried out to investigate response of sesame to K and S application at Humera Agri...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2019/v2i430061
Field experiments were conducted in three sites of Western Tigray, Ethiopia. The experiments aimed at identifying optimum the rate of the newly introduced NPS fertilizer impact with different levels on growth, yield attributes, yield and economics of sesame in vertisols of Wester...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2019/v2i430059
Aim: To determine the effect of different rates of sawdust (SD) and poultry manure (PM) applied on some soil physical properties of acid sandy Ultisol, and some growth parameters and yield of cocoyam. Study Design: 2 x 5 factorial arrangement in a randomized complete block design...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2019/v2i430058
Badar-Uz-Zaman ., Huda Khan, Muhammad Suhaib, Muhammad Ishaq, Muhammad Arshadullah & Imdad Ali Mahmood·Asian Soil Research Journal·2020
Saline soils contain multiple types of soluble salts. Role of alkaline salts (AS) may be different than neutral salts (NS) for crop growth. Usually these types of salinity frequently co-exist. Neutral salts generally induce osmotic stress and ion-induced injury to growing crop p...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2019/v2i430057
A greenhouse experiment was carried out to evaluate the response of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) to saline water irrigation under soilless and traditional techniques. A special fertigation technique with two different salinity levels (1 dS m-1 and 4 dS m-1) of water was used und...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2019/v2i330056
The effect of elemental sulfur on some chemical soil properties and wheat grown was studied by two performing experiments, under high terrace soils of northern region of the Sudan. First experiment (incubation experiment) was executed to quantify the rates and application time of...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2019/v2i330055