Integrated Soil Fertility Management Practices: Potential Links Between Soil Fertility and Crop Protection and their resulting Impact on Crop Yield - Couverture souple

Ochilo, Willis

 
9783659336034: Integrated Soil Fertility Management Practices: Potential Links Between Soil Fertility and Crop Protection and their resulting Impact on Crop Yield
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3659336033 ISBN 13 : 9783659336034
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

The common bean is an important food and cash crop in many regions of the world. In Africa alone, it provides food for more than 100 million people and is a critical source of income for rural households. Common bean yields, however, have dropped in the last ten years. This decline is the result of poor soil fertility and nutrient depletion as well as high incidences of insect pests, key among them being the bean stem maggot (BSM) and the black bean aphid (BBA). To address soil nutrient depletion and the accompanying declining agricultural productivity, integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) has been adapted as a framework for enhancing crop productivity through combining fertilizer use with other soil fertility management technologies, adapted to local conditions. The book evaluates the influence of soil fertility treatments on yield and yield components of the common bean. Additionally, to establish the potential links between soil fertility and crop protection, the effect of ISFM interventions on the incidence of the BSM and the BBA is also being assessed.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The common bean is an important food and cash crop in many regions of the world. In Africa alone, it provides food for more than 100 million people and is a critical source of income for rural households. Common bean yields, however, have dropped in the last ten years. This decline is the result of poor soil fertility and nutrient depletion as well as high incidences of insect pests, key among them being the bean stem maggot (BSM) and the black bean aphid (BBA). To address soil nutrient depletion and the accompanying declining agricultural productivity, integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) has been adapted as a framework for enhancing crop productivity through combining fertilizer use with other soil fertility management technologies, adapted to local conditions. The book evaluates the influence of soil fertility treatments on yield and yield components of the common bean. Additionally, to establish the potential links between soil fertility and crop protection, the effect of ISFM interventions on the incidence of the BSM and the BBA is also being assessed.

Biographie de l'auteur

Willis Ochilo is an experienced and resourceful agricultural entomologist with proven background in entomological research and mass rearing of natural enemies. He has enjoyed a career as an entomologist at Dudutech; and conducted research on several mites. He holds a B.Sc in Zoology and an M.Sc in Agri. Entomology from the University of Nairobi.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3659336033
ISBN 13 
9783659336034
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
80
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