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A review of soil fertility management and crop response to fertilizer application in Ethiopia: Towards development of site- and context-specific fertilizer recommendation

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https://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/82996/A_REVIEW_SOIL_FERTILITY_MANAGEMENT_AND_CROP_RESPONSE_FERTILIZER_APPLICATION_ETHIOPIA.pdf?sequence=5
 
Title A review of soil fertility management and crop response to fertilizer application in Ethiopia:
Towards development of site- and context-specific fertilizer recommendation
 
Creator Tamene, L
Amede, T
Kihara, J
Tibebe, D
Schulz, S
 
Subject Soil Fertility
Fertilizers
Soil Science
Fertilizer Appications
African Agriculture
Sub-Saharan Africa
Ethiopia
 
Description More than 80% of the Ethiopian population is
dependent on agriculture, which contributes about
50% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP)
and more than 80% of its export earnings. Although
the agricultural sector is the engine of economic
growth and the country has designed an “Agriculturalled
Industrialization”, the agricultural sector is still
characterized by severe soil erosion, high levels
of nutrient mining, low use of external inputs, low
productivity and limited capacity to respond to
environmental shocks. Thus, the country is grappling
with a daunting challenge: produce more food for a
fast-growing population on low fertility soils on land
owned by poor smallholder farmers who are unlikely
to afford adequate input use. To address these
challenges, several efforts are being made since the
1960s to assess the potential effects of various sources
of organic and mineral fertilizers on crop yield and soil
fertility status of the differing farming systems in the
country...
 
Publisher CIAT
 
Date 2017
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10178/1/Soil%20fertility%20management%20in%20African%20Highlands.pdf
Tamene, L and Amede, T and Kihara, J and Tibebe, D and Schulz, S (2017) A review of soil fertility management and crop response to fertilizer application in Ethiopia: Towards development of site- and context-specific fertilizer recommendation. Technical Report. CIAT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.