Agricultural scientists are sowing winter grain crops such as wheat into established summer-growing perennial grasses to try and boost soil quality and improve water use while maintaining crop yields ...

A six-year field experiment was conducted in the Loess Plateau to explore the impacts of five planting patterns, namely fallow(C0), continuous maize cropping(C1), continuous alfalfa cropping(C2), ...

Nitrogen fertilizers play an essential role in ensuring global food security. However, the applied fertilizer-nitrogen, particularly that exceeding crop demand and soil N retention capacity, can ...

Agriculture acts as the primary source of economic and food security for developing countries like Bangladesh. Increasing population and consumption are placing unprecedented demands on agriculture ...

Diagram illustrating the impact of natural factors, soil parameters, and nitrogen (N) application rate on the proportion of fertilizer-N losses to the applied N in the cropping seasons of wheat, rice, ...