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A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Production".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 June 2023 | Viewed by 3609

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Dr. Agnieszka Faligowska

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Department of Agronomy, Poznań University of Life Sciences, 11 Dojazd St., 60-632 Poznań, Poland
Interests: crop production; sustainable agriculture; soil tillage systems; biodiversity; forecrop residue management; soil and nutrient management

Prof. Dr. Katarzyna Panasiewicz

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Department of Agronomy, Poznań University of Life Sciences, 11 Dojazd St., 60-632 Poznań, Poland
Interests: sustainable agriculture; crop cultivation; seed quality; soil management; crop nutrition; microorganisms; farming technology
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Dear Colleagues,

Modern agriculture faces many challenges. Among the most important is feeding the ever-growing human population with environmentally friendly methods. Hence, there is a growing interest in sustainable agriculture, which aims to ensuring world food security through nurturing healthy ecosystems and supporting the environmentally friendly management of land, water and natural resources. Nowadays, sustainable agriculture must answer the question of how to increase the yield potential of crops per acre or hectare without harming the environment. For this reason, sustainable agriculture is based on varieties of crops bred for high performance under different environmental conditions. Soil tillage systems also can play a key role as one of the most important factors to improve crop production. Furthermore, an indispensable element of sustainable agriculture is biodiversity and the abandonment of monocultures. This Special Issue focuses on the most recent and important findings related to “Sustainable Nutrient Management in Agricultural Production”, such as the application of environmentally friendly fertilizers, seed inoculations, biodiversity, mulching, rotating crops, planting cover crops and using different kinds of reduced soil tillage systems. These practices can lead to improvements in plant nutrition and high performance. All types of articles, such as original research and reviews, are welcome.

Dr. Agnieszka Faligowska
Prof. Dr. Katarzyna Panasiewicz
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biofertilizers
sustainable agriculture
no-tillage systems
biodiversity
forecrop
residue management
cover crops
mulching
crop rotation
microorganisms
soil and nutrient management

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Optimizing the Amount of Nitrogen and Seed Inoculation to Improve the Quality and Yield of Soybean Grown in the Southeastern Baltic Region

Katarzyna Panasiewicz

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Agriculture 2023, 13(4), 798; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13040798 - 30 Mar 2023

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The cultivation of soybeans, especially where this species has not been grown in large areas, requires the determination of the optimal mineral nitrogen fertilization and seed inoculation with Bradyrhizobium japonicum. The purpose of the study was to determine the optimal dose of mineral N fertilization and seed inoculation treatments with B. japonicum under field conditions in the southeastern Baltic region. The objective of this study was to achieve nitrogen supply and/or inoculation with B. japonicum: check-0 kg N ha⁻¹, 30 kg N ha⁻¹, 60 kg N ha⁻¹, HiStick^® Soy + 0 kg N ha⁻¹, Nitroflora + 0 kg N ha⁻¹, HiStick^® Soy + 30 kg N ha⁻¹, HiStick^® Soy + 60 kg N ha⁻¹, Nitroflora + 30 kg N ha⁻¹, Nitroflora + 60 kg N ha⁻¹. Higher yields of seeds, protein and fat were found after application HiStick^® Soy compared to Nitorflora. The inoculation with B. japonicum together with nitrogen fertilization improved crude protein content in seeds, biometrical features, yield components and especially the seed yield of ‘Aldana’ soybean. The highest seed yield was found after the application of HiStick^® Soy and nitrogen fertilization in doses 30 kg N ha⁻¹ or 60 kg N ha⁻¹. Compared to the control, combined B. japonicum inoculation and nitrogen fertilization in soybean cultivation proved to be a significant factor in improving the productivity of this species in southeastern Baltic conditions. Full article

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Precision Nutrient Management in Zero-Till Direct-Seeded Rice Influences the Productivity, Profitability, Nutrient, and Water Use Efficiency as Well as the Environmental Footprint in the Indo Gangetic Plain of India

Laimayum Devarishi Sharma

Kiranmoy Patra

Vijay Pratap

Amnah Mohammed Alsuhaibani

Ahmed Gaber

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Akbar Hossain

Agriculture 2023, 13(4), 784; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13040784 - 29 Mar 2023

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Conventional tillage practices coupled with irrational use of fertilizer in the rice-wheat cropping system (RWCS) often leads to poor productivity, low nutrient use efficiency, and cause environmental pollution. Conservation tillage with surface residue retention in combination with intelligent nutrient management might improve productivity and use efficiency of water as well as nutrients in zero-till direct-seeded rice (ZTDSR). Keeping this in mind, during the kharif season of 2018 and 2019, a trial was carried out at the ICAR-IARI in New Delhi to investigate the varying nutrient management approaches following a precise manner in DSR. The treatments consisted of soil-test-based NPK (STB-NPK) and Nutrient Expert^® (+LCC_N) based NPK (NE-NPK) applications, Fertilizer applied at the recommended dose (RDF) [120-60-40 kg/ha NPK], the state recommended NPK (110-50-40 kg/ha) and omission plot technique of NPK [i.e., STB (N₀PK, NP₀K & NPK₀); SR (N₀PK, NP₀K & NPK₀) and NE-(N₀PK, NP₀K & NPK₀)]. The results indicated that STB NPK application led to a 12% higher grain yield over RDF. However, NE-NPK resulted in a 7% and 35% increase in N (AEN) agronomic efficiency and P (AEP) over the STB-NPK application respectively. In contrast, AE_k was 24% higher in STB-NPK over NE-NPK treatment. The comparison of two years’ results that the first year performed better than the succeeding year in these respect (productivity and AE) except in the case of AE_k. The N₂O emission in NE-NPK treatment was also significantly reduced (49%) over the control (no N). STB-NPK treatment also improved profitability by 22% over RDF. Precision nutrient management (PNM) increased the crop yield, income, and use efficiency of nutrients and water and reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of DSR in Southeast Asia. Full article

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Evaluation of the Usefulness of Fermented Liquid Organic Formulations and Manures for Improving the Soil Fertility and Productivity of Brinjal (Solanum melongena L.)

Salwinder Singh Dhaliwal

Amnah Mohammed Alsuhaibani

Ahmed Gaber

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Akbar Hossain

Agriculture 2023, 13(2), 417; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13020417 - 10 Feb 2023

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The practice of incorporating organic manures and fermented liquid biofertilizers of different origins and compositions can supply valuable nutrients to the soil. To ascertain the effect of fermented liquid organic nutrient formulations (FLONFs) on the rhizospheric microbial population, growth characteristics, nutritional status, and yield of brinjal, a field experiment was conducted in consecutive seasons in 2017 and 2018. Fermented liquid biofertilizers (panchagavya and jeevamrut) were prepared and applied along with organic manures to brinjal plants in ten treatment combinations in three replications. The treatment (T₄) involving the combined use of organics and FLONFs contributed significantly to the soil dehydrogenase enzyme activity (4.9 mg TPF h⁻¹ g⁻¹ soil), phosphatase enzyme activity (25.5 mmoles PNP h⁻¹ g⁻¹ soil), and urease enzyme activity (0.27 mg NH4⁺ g⁻¹ soil). The mean bacterial count, fungal count, and actinomycete levels were 203.3 × 10⁸ cfu g⁻¹, 4.34 × 10³ cfu g⁻¹, and 3.41 × 10² cfu g⁻¹ soil, respectively, along with a mean soil microbial biomass of carbon value of 66.1 mg g⁻¹ soil. The brinjal yield was maximal under treatment T₄ with values of 389.2 q ha⁻¹ and 153.7 q ha⁻¹ for 2017 and 2018, respectively. As a result, for higher yields and soil longevity, the combination of organics and FLONFs can be advocated. Full article

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Alley Cropping and Organic Compost: An Efficient and Sustainable Agro-Ecological Strategy for Improving Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) Growth and Attributes

Yassin M. Soliman

Wagdi S. Soliman

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Ahmed M. Abbas

Agriculture 2023, 13(1), 149; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13010149 - 06 Jan 2023

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Alley cropping is a sustainable agriculture approach that improves ecosystem services while also promoting biodiversity. The current study was conducted over two seasons, 2019/2020 and 2020/2021, to examine the impact of leucaena–turmeric alley cropping and organic compost addition as agroforestry systems on the growth, yield and characteristics of the turmeric crop. Alley cropping included four treatments: control (turmeric as sole crop), turmeric cultivated between leucaena trees pruned at 1 m height, leucaena trees pruned at 1.5 m height and unpruned leucaena trees. Meanwhile, organic compost rates were control (received recommended NPK) and 17 and 34 m³ ha⁻¹. This study’s results showed that growing turmeric in between rows of unpruned leucaena resulted in maximum turmeric plant growth, production and characteristics. Minimum turmeric growth and yield parameters were recorded with plants grown between pruned leucaena at 1 m and those where the turmeric was the sole crop. In addition, compost addition at 34 m³ ha⁻¹ led to maximum growth, yield and attributes of the turmeric crop. Compost addition and alley cropping were shown to be an effective and sustainable agro-ecological system for increasing turmeric output and quality. The study demonstrated the importance of selecting the appropriate crop–tree combination in this system and it was discovered that leguminous leucaena trees significantly contributed to improving fertility and nutrient availability, which in turn improved the growth characteristics of turmeric, particularly the leaf-area index and its nutrient content, which are beneficial to the characteristics of the rhizome yield and curcumin content. Full article

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