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Doubled-Up Legume Systems Under Conservation Agriculture and Conventional Agriculture in Sinda, Chipata, and Lundazi, Zambia

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Title Doubled-Up Legume Systems Under Conservation Agriculture and Conventional Agriculture in Sinda, Chipata, and Lundazi, Zambia
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/J0QAKN
 
Creator International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
Zambian Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI)
Total LandCare (TLC)
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

This study contains data originated from on-farm trials that were conducted to test and demonstrate the crop yield and economic benefits derived from conservation agriculture (CA) systems on smallholder farms where the ridge and furrow tillage system is the traditional practice. The farm trials were conducted at six farms in Chipata, Lundazi, and Sinda districts of the eastern province of Zambia. In each site, the trials were replicated four times and had two general treatment sets:1)conservation agriculture; and 2) Conventional ridge and furrow systems.


The sub-treatments were:

  • Sole cropping groundnuts

  • Sole cropping pigeonpea

  • Full population of groundnuts + half population of pigeonpea

  • Full population of groundnuts and pigeon


    • The trials were conducted over multiple years:

  • Year 1: Legume phase

  • Year 2: Maize phase + legume phase

  • Year 3: Legume phase + maize phase


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    Subject Agricultural Sciences
    Social Sciences
    conservation agriculture
    climate-smart agriculture
    legumes
    maize
    zero tillage
    intercropping
    sole cropping
    crop rotation
    ZAMBIA
    SOUTHERN AFRICA
    AFRICA
     
    Language English
     
    Date 2018
     
    Contributor IFPRI-KM
    Thierfelder, Christian (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT))
    Mwila, Mulundu (Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI))
     
    Relation Conservation Agriculture Mother Trials in Chipata, Lundazi, and Sinda, Zambia
     
    Type experimental data