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A Review on Recycling of Sunflower Residue for Sustaining Soil Health
Joint Authors
Yadav, S. K.
Singh, Raghavendra
Yadav, G. S.
Babu, Subhash
Rana, D. S.
Source
International Journal of Agronomy
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-7, 7 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-02-04
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Modern agriculture is now at the crossroads ecologically, economically, technologically, and socially due to soil degradation.
Critical analysis of available information shows that problems of degradation of soil health are caused due to imbalanced, inadequate and promacronutrient fertilizer use, inadequate use or no use of organic manures and crop residues, and less use of good quality biofertilizers.
Although sizeable amount of crop residues and manure is produced in farms, it is becoming increasingly complex to recycle nutrients, even within agricultural systems.
Therefore, there is a need to use all available sources of nutrients to maintain the productivity and fertility at a required level.
Among the available organic sources of plant nutrients, crop residue is one of the most important sources for supplying nutrients to the crop and for improving soil health.
Sunflower is a nontraditional oil seed crop produced in huge amount of crop residue.
This much amount of crop residues is neither used as feed for livestock nor suitable for fuel due to low energy value per unit mass.
However, its residue contains major plant nutrients in the range from 0.45 to 0.60% N, 0.15 to 0.22% P, and 1.80 to 1.94% K along with secondary and micronutrients, so recycling of its residue in the soil may be one of the best alternative practices for replenishing the depleted soil fertility and improving the physical, chemical, and biological properties of the soil in the present era of production.
However, some researchers have reported allelopathic effects of sunflower residue on different crops.
So, selection of suitable crops and management practices may play an important role to manage the sunflower residue at field level.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Babu, Subhash& Rana, D. S.& Yadav, G. S.& Singh, Raghavendra& Yadav, S. K.. 2014. A Review on Recycling of Sunflower Residue for Sustaining Soil Health. International Journal of Agronomy،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-484063
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Babu, Subhash…[et al.]. A Review on Recycling of Sunflower Residue for Sustaining Soil Health. International Journal of Agronomy No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-484063
American Medical Association (AMA)
Babu, Subhash& Rana, D. S.& Yadav, G. S.& Singh, Raghavendra& Yadav, S. K.. A Review on Recycling of Sunflower Residue for Sustaining Soil Health. International Journal of Agronomy. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-484063
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-484063