Contribution of Nitrogen to Growth of Maize in Legume-maize Rotation on Limed Ultisols

Liming of soils and the use of legume residues in a crop rotation are considered good approaches to reduce the constraints of high aluminium and low native nitrogen affecting annual food crop production in Ultisols. Using this approach the values of nitrogen contributed to maize in three groundnut...

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Main Authors: Abd Rahim, Anuar, Shamsuddin, Zulkifli, Yaacob, Othman
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Published: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 1994
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author Abd Rahim, Anuar
Shamsuddin, Zulkifli
Yaacob, Othman
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Shamsuddin, Zulkifli
Yaacob, Othman
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description Liming of soils and the use of legume residues in a crop rotation are considered good approaches to reduce the constraints of high aluminium and low native nitrogen affecting annual food crop production in Ultisols. Using this approach the values of nitrogen contributed to maize in three groundnut (L)-maize (M) sequences (LMLM, MLLM and LLLM) in an intensive rotational cropping system were estimated. The estimates were made by subtracting the total N-uptake by maize in the zero N-fertilized monocropping from the total N-uptake by maize under the respective legume-maize rotation. The results showed that it is possible to sustain an increased yield of groundnut and maize on limed Ultisols. In the groundnut-maize cropping system, the average N contribution was after one, two and three successive groundnut crops was 19, 33, and 56 kg N ha-1. The latter estimate is about one-third of the newly recommended total N requirement of maize, 159 kg N ha-1.
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spelling upm-32032013-05-27T07:06:25Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3203/ Contribution of Nitrogen to Growth of Maize in Legume-maize Rotation on Limed Ultisols Abd Rahim, Anuar Shamsuddin, Zulkifli Yaacob, Othman Liming of soils and the use of legume residues in a crop rotation are considered good approaches to reduce the constraints of high aluminium and low native nitrogen affecting annual food crop production in Ultisols. Using this approach the values of nitrogen contributed to maize in three groundnut (L)-maize (M) sequences (LMLM, MLLM and LLLM) in an intensive rotational cropping system were estimated. The estimates were made by subtracting the total N-uptake by maize in the zero N-fertilized monocropping from the total N-uptake by maize under the respective legume-maize rotation. The results showed that it is possible to sustain an increased yield of groundnut and maize on limed Ultisols. In the groundnut-maize cropping system, the average N contribution was after one, two and three successive groundnut crops was 19, 33, and 56 kg N ha-1. The latter estimate is about one-third of the newly recommended total N requirement of maize, 159 kg N ha-1. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 1994 Article NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3203/1/Contribution_of_Nitrogen_to_Growth_of_Maize_in_Legume-maize_Rotation.pdf Abd Rahim, Anuar and Shamsuddin, Zulkifli and Yaacob, Othman (1994) Contribution of Nitrogen to Growth of Maize in Legume-maize Rotation on Limed Ultisols. Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science, 17 (3). pp. 173-184. ISSN 0126-6128 English
spellingShingle Abd Rahim, Anuar
Shamsuddin, Zulkifli
Yaacob, Othman
Contribution of Nitrogen to Growth of Maize in Legume-maize Rotation on Limed Ultisols
title Contribution of Nitrogen to Growth of Maize in Legume-maize Rotation on Limed Ultisols
title_full Contribution of Nitrogen to Growth of Maize in Legume-maize Rotation on Limed Ultisols
title_fullStr Contribution of Nitrogen to Growth of Maize in Legume-maize Rotation on Limed Ultisols
title_full_unstemmed Contribution of Nitrogen to Growth of Maize in Legume-maize Rotation on Limed Ultisols
title_short Contribution of Nitrogen to Growth of Maize in Legume-maize Rotation on Limed Ultisols
title_sort contribution of nitrogen to growth of maize in legume-maize rotation on limed ultisols
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3203/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/3203/1/Contribution_of_Nitrogen_to_Growth_of_Maize_in_Legume-maize_Rotation.pdf