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The sustainability of a groundnut plus maize rotation over 12 years on smallholder farms in the sub-humid zone of Zimbabwe (Record no. 26838)

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control field G90104
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control field MX-TxCIM
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control field 20220518213121.0
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022 0# - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER
International Standard Serial Number 1991-637X
024 8# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code https://doi.org/10.5897/AJAR.9000733
Qualifying information DOI is wrong in original article
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Original cataloging agency MX-TxCIM
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
090 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (RLIN)
Classification number (OCLC) (R) ; Classification number, CALL (RLIN) (NR) CIS-5087
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Waddington, S.R.
9 (RLIN) 5572
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The sustainability of a groundnut plus maize rotation over 12 years on smallholder farms in the sub-humid zone of Zimbabwe
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Nigeria :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Academic Journals,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2007.
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Material base and configuration Computer File|Printed
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General note Peer-review: No - Open Access: Yes|http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/AJAR/editorial-policies
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General note Peer review
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General note Open Access
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Summary, etc. An experiment was conducted on four smallholder farms and on-station in the sub-humid zone of northeast Zimbabwe for 12 years to assess how the rotation of groundnut with NPK-fertilized and unfertilized maize affected the productivity and sustainability of this common smallholder cropping system. At the sandy-soil Domboshava station, maize grain yield declined over 12 years of continuous maize cropping, and the rate of decline was larger when fertilizer was used. Maize grain yield was already low (around 0.7 t ha-1 without fertilizer) on the smallholder farm fields when the experiment began, and there was little evidence of further decline. A 3-year groundnut plus maize plus maize rotation raised maize grain yield on station both when fertilizer was used on maize and when not, with some benefits persisting into the second year of maize after groundnut. Three cycles of the rotation with fertilizer at Domboshava increased maize yields by 0.21, 2.92 and 2.26 t ha-1 in the first year after groundnut. With unfertilized maize, grain yields rose by 2.15, 1.52 and 3.61 t ha-1, which was double or more than double those from continuous maize plots. Accumulated over three rotation cycles (nine years) on station, the rotation gave 3.54 t ha-1 (13.2%) more maize grain than continuous maize with fertilizer and 5.33 t ha-1 (42.2%) more when fertilizer was not used, as well as almost 1 t ha-1 of groundnut grain. On the farms, overall yields of groundnut and maize were much smaller, because soils and management were poorer, and inputs few. Groundnut crops averaged less than 0.13 t ha-1 grains. The rotation raised maize grain yield only when no fertilizer was used on maize, where three cycles of the rotation raised maize grain yields by 0.21, 0.38 and 0.32 t ha-1. Accumulated over three rotation cycles, the rotation without fertilizer gave 0.51 t ha-1 (15.1%) more maize grain than continuous maize on the farms, and 0.4 t ha-1 of groundnut grain. It was concluded that the rotation of groundnut with maize can sustain the productivity of smallholder maize systems in sub-humid northeastern Zimbabwe in moderately fertile station conditions and can contribute on nutrient-depleted smallholder fields even when the crops are grown without fertilizer and with few management practices.
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Language note Text in English
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
9 (RLIN) 1807
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Crop rotation
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Experimentation
9 (RLIN) 4432
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Groundnuts
9 (RLIN) 2338
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Soil fertility
9 (RLIN) 1952
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Maize
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 1173
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element On-farm research
9 (RLIN) 1357
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Sustainability
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 1283
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Subhumid zones
9 (RLIN) 10282
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
9 (RLIN) 4496
Geographic name Zimbabwe
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Karigwindi, J.
9 (RLIN) 19549
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Chifamba, J.
9 (RLIN) 27549
773 0# - HOST ITEM ENTRY
Title African Journal of Agricultural Research
Note 634883
Related parts v. 2, no. 8, p. 342-348
Place, publisher, and date of publication Nigeria : Academic Journals, 2007.
Record control number G89502
International Standard Serial Number 1991-637X
856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Link text Open Access through DSpace
Uniform Resource Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10883/1498
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