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Rotation in Conservation Agriculture Systems of Zambia: Effects on Soil Quality and Water Relations

2010-07-01

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Conservation agriculture (CA) systems are based on minimal soil disturbance, crop residue retention and crop rotation. Although the capacity of rotations to break pest and disease cycles is generally recognized, other benefits of crop rotations in CA systems are seldom acknowledged and little understood. We monitored different conventional and CA cropping systems over the period from 2005 to 2009 in a multi-season...

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DOI: 10.1017/s001447971000030x

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