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| Titel |
Implementation of Sustainable Soil Management Practices to Improve Crop Production in the Different Ethiopian Agro Systems |
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R. García Moreno, S. Gameda, M. C. Díaz Alvarez, Y. G. Selasie |
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EGU General Assembly 2012
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Artikel
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Englisch
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PDF |
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In: GRA - Volume 14 (2012) |
| Datensatznummer |
250060256
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Agriculture in Ethiopia is one of first priority since close to 10 In this context, the
Ethiopian crop production faces to the following soil management challenges: lack of
updated soil data, macro and micro nutrient depletion, acidity, salinity and soil surface
erosion and crusting. One of the biggest issues is the loss of arable land, above 137
T/yr, reaching during some particularly dried periods until 300 T/yr. In this context,
the authors constituted a working group of experts from Spanish and Ethiopian
universities, local producers and international and governmental organisms to analyse the
problems related to the different agro ecological zones found in Ethiopia and the
management practices of different local producers. The study produced the trends to
implement in the different areas to improve soil management practices in order to
contribute to increase the crop production mainly to achieve food security problems. The
analyse produced different working fields for the next years for addressing soil
degradation, improving land resources management practices, increasing agricultural
productivity, updating the available soil data, developing an international program of
education, transferring of knowledge from similar study cases and implementing
economical tools to help producers to assure income after severe edapho-climatic events.
The practical work and the projects developed for the next period is addressed to
smallholder farms belonging to the different 34 agro ecological zones identified in
Ethiopia, each of them with very specific environmental, cultural and soil management
practices. |
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