Maize yield response to N, P, K, population, and planting date in Lesotho, Southern Africa

Abstract

This is an abstract of a presentation at the Soil Science Society of America meeting in San Antinio, Texas on Wednesday October 19th, 2011 at 10:20 in the morning. The presentation includes conservation agriculture techniques used in Lestho in Sub-Sahara Africa to increase soil carbon, in turn increasing production yields. This is an area of minimal data, therefore a variety of farming types were used, which include livelihood farming, small-scale farming, and large-scale farming

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Keywords

Conservation agriculture, Soil nutrients, Soil erosion, Soil conservation, Small-scale farming, Food security, Farm/Enterprise Scale

Citation

Abstract presented at the Soil Science Society of America, San Antonio, TX, 19 October 2011