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Evidence-based Soils Agronomy for Sustainable Crop Production in Muranga County, Kenya

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Title Evidence-based Soils Agronomy for Sustainable Crop Production in Muranga County, Kenya
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.34725/DVN/RTDZH8
 
Creator Aynekulu, Ermias
Sitienei, Ruth
Wood, Stephen
Shepherd, Keith
 
Publisher World Agroforestry - Research Data Repository
 
Description The project ‘Improved Agricultural Measurement for Evidence-based Investments in Improved Crop Production in Kenya’ was funded by The Nature Conservancy. The project used soil-plant diagnostic method developed at the World Agroforestry (ICRAF) to quantify soil health constraints for maize production and targeting interventions to improve soil health for agronomic gain. We tested soil and maize plant tissues to estimate macro and micronutrients and compared it with optimum plant nutrient requirements. The project was piloted in in Muranga County, Kenya.The Nature Conservancy (TNC) project dataset contains laboratory results of 524 top (0-20 cm) and sub soil (20-50 cm) soil and 206 plant tissue properties. The samples are from targeted 170 farms in Nginda, Kambiti in Maragua sub county and Kangema and Kigumo sub-counties in Muranga county of Kenya in East Africa. The datasets include MIR spectra, plant macronutrients and micronutrients measured at the World Agroforestry (ICRAF) Soil and Plant Spectral Diagnostic Laboratory and extracatable nutrients results from Crop Nutrition Laboratory Services.
 
Subject Agricultural Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Social Sciences
Capacity development
Soil health
Soil properties
Fertilizer
Farmer recommendations
 
Language English
 
Contributor Karari, Valentine
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
The Nature Conservancy
 
Type MIR and Measured Wet Chemistry data