Manure is a key nutrient resource on smallholder farms in the tropics, especially on poorly buffered sandy soils, due to its multiple benefits for soil fertility. Farmers preferentially apply manure to fields closest to homesteads (homefields), which are more fertile than fields further away (out...
Zingore, Shamie
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Delve, Robert J.
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Nyamangara, Justice
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Giller, Ken E.
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[Multiple benefits of manure : The key to maintenance of soil fertility and restoration of depleted sandy soils on African smallholder farms]
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Multiple benefits of manure : The key to maintenance of soil fertility and restoration of depleted sandy soils on African smallholder farms
Rusinamhodzi, Leonard
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Wijk, Mark T. van
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Corbeels, Marc
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Rufino, Mariana C.
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Giller, Ken E.
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[Maize crop residue uses and trade-offs on smallholder crop-livestock farms in Zimbabwe: economic implications of intensification]
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Maize crop residue uses and trade-offs on smallholder crop-livestock farms in Zimbabwe: economic implications of intensification
Stages in the diagnosis of an interveinal leaf chlorosis in bean in the Usambara Mountains of northern Tanzania are described. Leaf tissue analysis, soil analysis, a 25 factorial trial with treatments of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, the trace elements copper and zinc and lime at one location ...
Smithson, James Brady
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Edje, O.T.
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Giller, Ken E.
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[Diagnosis and correction of soil nutrient problems of common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) in the Usambara mountains of Tanzania]
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Diagnosis and correction of soil nutrient problems of common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) in the Usambara mountains of Tanzania
Promiscuous soyabean varieties have potential to contribute significantly to income generation, food security and soil N budgets on smallholder farms. One of the major factors limiting this potential is farmers preference to allocate nutrient resources to food security cereal crops on the most f...
Zingore, Shamie
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Murwira, HK
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Delve, Robert J.
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Giller, Ken E.
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[Variable grain legume yields, responses to phosphorus and rotational effects on maize across soil fertility gradients on African smallholder farms]
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Variable grain legume yields, responses to phosphorus and rotational effects on maize across soil fertility gradients on African smallholder farms