Cotton as an entry point for soil fertility maintenance and food crop productivity in savannah agroecosystems-Evidence from a long-term experiment in southern Mali

Given the scarcity of manure and the limited land available for fallowing, cotton cultivation with its input credit schemes is often the main entry point for nutrients in cropping systems of West Africa. In an experiment carried out during 25 years in southern Mali, the crop and soil responses to or...

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Main Authors: Ripoche, Aude, Crétenet, M., Corbeels, Marc, Affholder, François, Naudin, Krishna, Sissoho, F., Douzet, Jean-Marie, Tittonell, Pablo Adrian
Format: info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo
Language:Inglés
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/1304
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378429015000556?np=y
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2015.02.013

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