The greatest challenge for tropical agriculture is land degradation and reduction in soil
fertility for sustainable crop and livestock production. Associated problems include soil …

A significant challenge in our time is to produce sufficient agricultural products on limited
farmable land to meet the needs for food, feed, fiber, and industrial uses in the face of a …

The area under energy crops has increased tenfold over the last 10 years, and there is large
consensus that the demand for energy crops will further increase rapidly to cover several …

As the only “tropical base of agricultural production” in China, Hainan lsland is vigorously
developing high-value agriculture and is becoming the province with the highest proportion …

Over the past decades, the economic benefit has prompted farmers to grow oilseed rape
(OSR). Consequently, the global OSR production increased considerably, and today the …

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate
source for the latest research in agronomy. As always, the subjects covered are varied and …

This paper estimates the availability of agricultural crop residue feedstocks in Canada for
cellulosic ethanol production. Canada's major field crops generate 100.6 million dry mega …

The productivity and quality of malting barley were evaluated using factorial combinations of
four preceding crops (faba bean, field pea, rapeseed, and barley) as main plots and four …

Soil fertility depletion is a major constraint of smallholder farming in sub-Saharan Africa. We
tested the aftereffects of green manures, namely vetch (Vicia sativa L.), lupin (Lupinus …

In western Canada, canola is traditionally grown in rotation once every 4 years to restrict
losses due to pests. Recently, growers have begun to produce canola more intensively due …