Saba Yousaf, Muhammad Ali Awais, Muhammad Naveed, Sumaira Shabbir, Sabir Ali & Muhammad Idrees·Asian Soil Research Journal·2019
The main sources of water are rain, surface and ground water. These resources are contaminated due to human activities. Clean water is basic need at every step of life, it also ensures the good health. The main objective of this study was to access the quality of ground water in...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2019/v2i330054
Experiments were carried out in the Nursery of the Department of Forestry and Environmental Management, the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike in Abia State during 2016 and 2017 cropping seasons to determine the effect of NPK fertilizer on the growth performance o...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2019/v2i330052
Aims: To evaluate the effect of compost application whether irradiated or not in addition to recommended mineral fertilization on growth and nutritional status of Valencia orange trees. Study Design: The design of the study is a randomized complete block design. The study was don...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2019/v2i330053
Md. Delwar Hossain, Md. Ehsanul Haq, Manna Salwa, Md. Nazmul Islam Shekh, Aisha Siddika, Sharna Akter, Md. Forhad Hossain & Md. Shariful Islam·Asian Soil Research Journal·2019
The study was conducted from January to April 2018 to estimate ecosystem carbon stock and tree species diversity at National Botanical Garden, Bangladesh. Transects line method square plots with a size of 20 m × 20 m were used. So altogether there were total eighty-three sample p...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2019/v2i230051
Mitigation of climate change is one of the major environmental challenges facing the globe. In this context, homegarden agroforestry systems (HGAFs) have large potential for climate change mitigation. Therefore, this study was initiated to estimate the biomass and soil carbon sto...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2019/v2i230049
M. A. Augie, M. A. Adegbite, A. R. Sanda, I. Ahmed, M. Ibrahim & S. I. Zakari·Asian Soil Research Journal·2019
A research was conducted on the soils of teaching and research fadama farm of Kebbi State University of Science and Technology Aliero located at Jega, with the aim of assessing the soil quality irrigated with tube well water of the study area. The entire University Fadama land wa...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2019/v2i230048
The combine use of dry cocoa bean testa ash and poultry droppings for the improvement of soil fertility, maize growth and yield was studied on an Alfisol south western Nigeria, located at Joseph Ayo Babalola University Ikeji-Arakeji, Ilesa Osun State, Nigeria. Research farm from...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2019/v2i230047
Henry Oppong Tuffour, Awudu Abubakari, Alex Amerh Agbeshie, Abdul Aziz Khalid, Erasmus Narteh Tetteh, Ali Keshavarzi, Mensah Bonsu, Charles Quansah, Jimmy Clifford Oppong & Lawrence Danso·Asian Soil Research Journal·2019
Aims: Direct methods of measuring saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks), either in situ or in the laboratory, are time consuming and very expensive. Several Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) are available for estimating Ks, with each having its own limitations. In this study, the per...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2019/v2i230046
A pot experiment was conducted in clay soil collected from Agricultural Research Center farm, Giza governorate, Egypt. Wheat grains (Triticum aestivum L., Giza 168) were cultivated to study the effect of silicate and phosphate ions as well as their interactions on the growth and...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2019/v2i130045
Microbial biodegradation of engine oil contaminated soil in Calabar Metropolis was studied for a period of six (6) months (January to June, 2017). The soil samples collected were ice boxed and taken to the laboratory for microbial, total hydrocarbon, total organic carbon and othe...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2019/v2i130044
Lettuce is one of the most abundant leafy vegetables and is consumed in its raw form by humans, all over the world. This study is conducted in one of the fields in the district of Al-Garmah City, Iraq, to investigate the effects of several fertilizers (Animal, Chemical, and Compo...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2019/v2i130043
Phosphorus is one macronutrient that commonly gets fixed and accumulates into soils after it has been in use for long, thus becoming readily unavailable to plants in subsequent years. Such scenario is ontological in Mwea where rice farming is practiced, yet this element is one ma...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2019/v2i130042
A field experiment (randomized complete blocks with three replicates) was conducted during two successive summer seasons of 2016 and 2017 at Sahl El-Houssinia Agriculture Research Station in El-Shakia Governorate, Egypt. Its lies between 32˚00/00 to 32˚15/00/ N latitude and 30˚50...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2019/v2i130041
Biological Nitrogen Fixation (BNF) is a major source of fixed N for plant life and to sustain production and productivity of agricultural crops. An incubation experiment was conducted by growing Azollae filiculoides with 2 agriculturally important potassic fertilizers (Potassium...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2018/v1i430040
The study was carried out to determine the impact of rubber effluent on the cationic and mycological properties of soil in a rubber plantation through which it flows. Rubber effluent samples were collected for physicochemical and mycological analysis from the effluent discharge p...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2018/v1i429856