eprintid: 10137
rev_number: 12
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datestamp: 2017-08-09 04:36:58
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contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@CGIAR.ORG
creators_name: Lenka, N K
creators_name: Satapathy, K K
creators_name: Lal, R
creators_name: Singh, R K
creators_name: Singh, N A K
creators_name: Agrawal, P K
creators_name: Choudhury, P
creators_name: Rathore, A
icrisatcreators_name: Rathore, A
affiliation: ICAR Research Complex for North-Eastern Hill Region, Umiam (Meghalaya)
affiliation: Ohio State University (Columbus)
affiliation: Indian Council of Agricultural Research (New Delhi)
affiliation: ICRISAT (Patancheru)
country: India
country: USA
title: Weed strip management for minimizing soil erosion and enhancing productivity in the sloping lands of north-eastern India
ispublished: pub
subjects: F12
subjects: S40006
subjects: s2.11
full_text_status: restricted
keywords: Sloping land technology, Soil conservation, Soil cover management, Soil erosion, Soil productivity, Erosion control technology, North-eastern India
note: The financial support received from ICAR Research Complex for NEH region, Umiam, Meghalaya in taking up the study is thankfully
acknowledged.
abstract: Soil erosion and shifting cultivation are the major constraints to agriculture in the north-eastern region of India. Low acceptance of cost-intensive soil conservation technologies (e.g., terracing) calls for developing low-cost erosion control measures. Thus, a field experiment was conducted during the monsoon period of 2008 and 2009, in runoff plots on a land slope of 40% to test the hypothesis that weed cover, if properly managed, minimizes soil erosion and improves soil productivity. The treatments implemented in duplicates were: maize (Zea mays) under shifting cultivation (T1), maize on contour lines (T2), groundnut (Arachis hypogea) on upper and maize on lower half of treatment plot, with both on contour lines (T3), groundnut on contour lines (T4) and maize on contour lines with natural vegetation as buffer strips (T5). The average sediment concentration of runoff water varied from 5.20 g L−1 (T1) to 1.07 g L−1 (T5) in 2008 and from 3.84 (T1) to 0.89 g L−1 (T5) in 2009. The soil loss ranged from 20.8 (T1) to 4.7 Mg ha−1 (T5), with corresponding loss of 670–147 kg ha−1 of SOC, 6.85–1.48 kg ha−1 of available N, and 2.14–0.87 kg ha−1 of available P. Weed strips and weed mulch on the upstream side of maize rows in T5 led to formation of stable mini-terraces promoting better plant and root growth. This study indicates cover management involving selective weed retention can reduce soil erosion, favourably modify land slope and promotes soil productivity.
date: 2017-07
date_type: published
publication: Soil and Tillage Research
volume: 170
publisher: Elsevier
pagerange: 104-113
id_number: 10.1016/j.still.2017.03.012
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1879-3444
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2017.03.012
related_url_url: https://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?q=Weed+strip+management+for+minimizing+soil+erosion+and+enhancing+productivity+in+the+sloping+lands+of+north-eastern+India&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5
related_url_type: pub
funders: ICAR
citation:   Lenka, N K and Satapathy, K K and Lal, R and Singh, R K and Singh, N A K and Agrawal, P K and Choudhury, P and Rathore, A  (2017) Weed strip management for minimizing soil erosion and enhancing productivity in the sloping lands of north-eastern India.  Soil and Tillage Research, 170.  pp. 104-113.  ISSN 1879-3444     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/10137/1/Lenka2017.pdf