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        <dc:title>Fertilizer micro-dosing in West African low-input cereals cropping: Benefits, challenges and improvement strategies</dc:title>
        <dc:creator>Blessing, O C</dc:creator>
        <dc:creator>Ibrahim, A</dc:creator>
        <dc:creator>Safo, E Y</dc:creator>
        <dc:creator>Yeboah, E</dc:creator>
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        <dc:creator>Logah, V</dc:creator>
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        <dc:subject>Cereals</dc:subject>
        <dc:subject>Fertilizers</dc:subject>
        <dc:subject>Fertilizer Applications</dc:subject>
        <dc:subject>African Agriculture</dc:subject>
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        <dc:description>Soil amendments are often unavailable in adequate quantities for increased crop production in smallholder cereal-based cropping systems in Africa. In order to increase crop yields and encourage farmers to apply inorganic fertilizers, fertilizer micro-dosing technology was developed. Fertilizer micro-dosing or “micro-fertilization” consists of the application of a small quantity of mineral fertilizer together with seeds of the target crop in the planting hole at sowing or 2-4 weeks after sowing. The objective of this paper is to review literature concerning crops responses to fertilizer micro-dosing in West Africa. The review also evaluates the benefits and challenges associated with nutrient management under fertilizer micro-dosing and supportive strategies for further improvement in the efficient use of limited nutrient sources of smallholder farmers were suggested. Recent scientific developments on fertilizer micro-dosing revealed that this technology has given promising results in respect of crop yields improvement, fertilizer use efficiency and economic returns. Other studies have, however, indicated that fertilizer micro-dosing increases the risk of soil nutrient imbalances due to low-input. For this reason, we suggest that fertilizer micro-dosing should be used in concert with organic amendments to optimize productivity of smallholder farmers in West Africa.</dc:description>
        <dc:publisher>Academic Journals</dc:publisher>
        <dc:date>2017-04</dc:date>
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        <dc:identifier>  Blessing, O C and Ibrahim, A and Safo, E Y and Yeboah, E and Abaidoo, R C and Logah, V and Monica, U I  (2017) Fertilizer micro-dosing in West African low-input cereals cropping: Benefits, challenges and improvement strategies.  African Journal of Agricultural Research, 12 (14).  pp. 1169-1176.  ISSN 1991-637X     </dc:identifier>
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