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Impact of No Tillage on physical proprieties of a clay soil in Central Morocco

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Title Impact of No Tillage on physical proprieties of a clay soil in Central Morocco
 
Creator Laghrour, Malika
 
Contributor Moussadek, Rachid
Mekkaoui, Mohamed
Zouahri, Abdelmajid
Dahan, Rachid
El Mourid, Mohamad
 
Description Conventional agriculture practiced in Morocco based on recurring tillage, leads to soil degradation (erosion, fertility
diminution, low organic matter content, etc.). To face up to this situation, conservation agriculture offers an opportunity to
reverse this alarming trend. Indeed, several international studies have confirmed the positive findings of conservation
agriculture in view of its impact on the structural stability which closely related to soil organic matter (SOM). This work
contributes to focus the impact of no tillage (NT) after ten years of experiment, on the structural stability, SOM and bulk
density (Da) of a Vertisol type clay soil in central of Morocco. The results showed that besides resistance of Vertisol under
NT to slow wetting test, the soil could resist also of the fast wetting test (p-value = 0.02 < 0.05). A significant effect was
observed for the SOM content at the surface (p-value = 0.00 < 0.05) whereas, there is no significant difference for bulk
density (p-value = 0.08 > 0.05). The results obtained in this paper have shown favorable effects of NT on the physical
quality of the clay soil.
 
Date 2014-09-10
2017-02-10T00:43:14Z
2017-02-10T00:43:14Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/Z17knO7S
Malika Laghrour, Rachid Moussadek, Mohamed Mekkaoui, Abdelmajid Zouahri, Rachid Dahan, Mohamad El Mourid. (10/9/2014). Impact of No Tillage on physical proprieties of a clay soil in Central Morocco. Journal of Materials and Environmental Science, 6.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/5664
Open access
 
Language fr
en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher University of Mohammed Premier Oujda
 
Source Journal of Materials and Environmental Science;6,(2014)