A three-year study was conducted in Zomba, southern Malawi to assess agroforestry-based soil management technologies in smallhold farmers' fields. Sesbania (Sesbania sesban), Tephrosia (Tephrosia vogelii) and pigeon peas (Cajanus cajan) provided green manure that was incorporated with maize stover. In the control plots, maize stover alone was applied. Forty-eight fields representing three landscape positions; dambo valleys (0 - 12% slope), dambo margins (0 - 12%) and steep slopes (> 12%) were selected. The agroforestry legumes were relay intercropped with maize at first weeding in every other furrow using seedlings for Sesbania and seeds for Tephrosia and pigeon peas. At the end of the growing season, legume leafy biomass and maize stove...
Crop production by smallholder farmers in Malawi is characterized by cultivation of maize on a large...
The major objective of this work was to evaluate and compare forage supply and soil fertility effect...
Legume technologies are widely promoted among smallholders in southern Africa, providing an opportun...
African Crop Science Journal, Vol. 7. No. 4, pp. 355-363, 1999 Intercropping Perennial Legumes For ...
Chronic shortage of food exists in Southern Malawi because of low maize (Zea mays L.) yields due, in...
Sole-cropped, unfertilized maize is the dominant cropping system throughout southern Africa. Yields ...
African Crop Science Journal, Vol. 8. No. 4 December 2000 MAIZE PRODUCTION UNDER TREE-BASED CROPPIN...
The relay cropping of sesbania (Sesbania sesban) — a N2-fixing legume — with maize (Zea mays) has be...
A study was conducted in Zomba, Southern Malawi in 1996- 98 to evaluate the potential of tree-based ...
Soil fertility degradation remains the major biophysical cause of declining per capita crop producti...
Low inherent soil fertility status coupled with little or no external nutrient inputs have contribut...
Soil infertility undermines the agriculture-based livelihoods in Malawi, where it is blamed for poor...
Yields under alley cropping might be improved if the most limiting nutrients not adequately supplied...
Soil infertility undermines the agriculture-based livelihoods in Malawi, where it is blamed for poor...
Fertilizer application is necessary for optimal maize (Zea mays. L) yields in Malawi due to declinin...
Crop production by smallholder farmers in Malawi is characterized by cultivation of maize on a large...
The major objective of this work was to evaluate and compare forage supply and soil fertility effect...
Legume technologies are widely promoted among smallholders in southern Africa, providing an opportun...
African Crop Science Journal, Vol. 7. No. 4, pp. 355-363, 1999 Intercropping Perennial Legumes For ...
Chronic shortage of food exists in Southern Malawi because of low maize (Zea mays L.) yields due, in...
Sole-cropped, unfertilized maize is the dominant cropping system throughout southern Africa. Yields ...
African Crop Science Journal, Vol. 8. No. 4 December 2000 MAIZE PRODUCTION UNDER TREE-BASED CROPPIN...
The relay cropping of sesbania (Sesbania sesban) — a N2-fixing legume — with maize (Zea mays) has be...
A study was conducted in Zomba, Southern Malawi in 1996- 98 to evaluate the potential of tree-based ...
Soil fertility degradation remains the major biophysical cause of declining per capita crop producti...
Low inherent soil fertility status coupled with little or no external nutrient inputs have contribut...
Soil infertility undermines the agriculture-based livelihoods in Malawi, where it is blamed for poor...
Yields under alley cropping might be improved if the most limiting nutrients not adequately supplied...
Soil infertility undermines the agriculture-based livelihoods in Malawi, where it is blamed for poor...
Fertilizer application is necessary for optimal maize (Zea mays. L) yields in Malawi due to declinin...
Crop production by smallholder farmers in Malawi is characterized by cultivation of maize on a large...
The major objective of this work was to evaluate and compare forage supply and soil fertility effect...
Legume technologies are widely promoted among smallholders in southern Africa, providing an opportun...