Conservation agriculture involves reduced tillage, permanent soil cover and crop rotations to
enhance soil fertility and to supply food from a dwindling land resource. Recently …

Smallholder farmers in the Guinea savanna practise cereal-legume intercropping to mitigate
risks of crop failure in mono-cropping. The productivity of cereal-legume intercrops could be …

Empirical evidence shows complementarity between maize and soybean as a sustained
agricultural system across North and South America as well as Eastern Europe. The …

Functional crop diversity enhances crop productivity, stability, and food security through
efficient nutrient cycling and water utilization; however, performance is variable under …

Sustainable corn production requires a dramatic shift toward natural soil fertility rather than
relying solely on synthetic fertilizers. Cover crops play an important role in improving the …

Autonomous machines have the potential to maintain food production and agroecological
farming resilience. However, autonomous complex mixed cropping is proving to be an …

Background Intercropping is assumed to increase food production while reducing fertilizer
needs and environmental impacts of crop production. Aims We aimed to (1) investigate the …

Productivity of summer maize (Zea mays) is relatively low in hill ecosystem of north-eastern
region (NER) of India due to scanty rainfall, lack of irrigation and low residual soil moisture …

Soil nutrient constraints coupled with erratic rainfall have led to poor crop yields and
occasionally to crop failure in sole cropping in the Guinea savanna of West Africa. We …

Introduction Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are essential nutrients for plant growth,
commonly supplied through costly inorganic amendments. However, despite the benefits of …