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Arresting Soil Erosion in Hilly Terrains with Pigeonpea - The Chinese Experience

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11561/
10.21275/SR20610094709
 
Title Arresting Soil Erosion in Hilly Terrains with Pigeonpea - The Chinese Experience
 
Creator Saxena, K B
Kumar, R V
 
Subject Soil Fertility
Crop Yield
Pigeonpea
Soil Science
 
Description Conservation of the nutrient-rich top soil is extremely important for sustaining agricultural productivity. It is now becoming a serious crop production constraint, particularly in the slopping hilly terrains. The ecology of such areas is rapidly deteriorating and their recovery seems extremely difficult. In southern China, where soil erosion is a serious issue, various plant species were unsuccessfully tried in the past to arrest the soil erosion. The Chinese scientists, in collaboration with ICRISAT, used late maturing pigeonpea cultivars to protect the fragile lands in Guangxi and Yunnan provinces. The planted area under pigeonpea in this system rapidly increased to 700 ha by 2001. This paper summarizes the methodologies used in soil conservation practices involving pigeonpea.
 
Date 2020-06
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11561/1/Arresting%20Soil%20erosion%20using%20pigeonpea.pdf
Saxena, K B and Kumar, R V (2020) Arresting Soil Erosion in Hilly Terrains with Pigeonpea - The Chinese Experience. International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), 9 (6). pp. 896-898. ISSN 2319-7064