Handbook for integrated soil fertility management / edited by Thomas Fairhurst.
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TextPublisher: Nairobi, Kenya : Africa Soil Health Consortium, 2012Copyright date: 2012Description: 1 online resource (ix, 154 pages, 21 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), chartsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781780642857
- Soil fertility -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Soil management -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Application rates
- Best management practices
- Crop production
- Crop yield
- Cropping systems
- Farming systems
- Fertilizers
- Handbooks
- Nutrients
- Production
- Reference standards
- Soil fertility
- 631.420967 23
- S599.5.A1 H36 2012eb
This ISFM handbook is organized into seven sections that include: an introduction, the need for ISFM, the principles of ISFM, soil fertility management practices, targeting ISFM options, an introduction to soil and crop production and a section containing tables, definitions and reference information. The entire project team that includes the TAG hopes that the reader finds this handbook a useful tool for tackling soil fertility and management on the continent and elsewhere where similar factors of production are at play.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The need for ISFM -- Principles of ISFM --Soil fertility management practices -- Targeting ISFM options -- Soil and crop production : an introduction.
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