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Rice yields enhanced through integrated management of cover crops and phosphate rock in phosphorus-deficient ultisols in West Africa

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/703/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00103620802432816
 
Title Rice yields enhanced through integrated management of cover crops and phosphate rock in phosphorus-deficient ultisols in West Africa
 
Creator Oikeh, S O
Somado, E A
Sahrawat, K L
Toure, A
Diatta, S
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description The relatively low solubility and availability of phosphorus (P) from indigenous phosphate rock could be enhanced by legumes in the acid soils of humid forest agroecosystems. Crotalaria micans L. was grown in a screenhouse without P or with P from triple superphosphate (TSP) and Malian Tilemsi Rock P. The P response of 20 cover crops was field-evaluated using TSP and Rock P. In both experiments, the fertilized cover crops were followed by upland rice without mineral N or P application. Mean rice grain yield and agronomic residual P-use efficiency were similar for both P sources. In the field, 1-year fallow treatment of Canavalia ensiformis (velvet bean) supplied with Mali Rock P gave the highest rice grain yield of 3.1 Mg ha-1, more than 180% that of 2-year continuous unfertilized rice (cv. 'WAB 56-50'). Among continuous rice plots, 'NERICA 2' (interspecific rice) supplied with Rock P produced the highest yield (2.0 Mg ha-1), suggesting that 'NERICA 2' might have greater potential to solubilize rock P. Results indicate that when combined with an appropriate legume, indigenous rock-P can release sufficient P to meet the P requirement of the legume and a following upland rice crop in rotation.
 
Date 2008
 
Type Article
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Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/703/1/CommSoilSciPlAnal39_2894-2919_2008.pdf
Oikeh, S O and Somado, E A and Sahrawat, K L and Toure, A and Diatta, S (2008) Rice yields enhanced through integrated management of cover crops and phosphate rock in phosphorus-deficient ultisols in West Africa. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 39. pp. 2894-2919.