See more from this Session: General Global Agronomy: II
Wednesday, October 19, 2011: 10:20 AM Hilton Palacio del Rio,
Corte Real DEF, Concourse Level Conservation agriculture (CA)
practices are accepted as a means of increasing soil carbon, and
thus productivity, in a variety of climates and geographic
locations. As with any farming practice, it is necessary to
adjust fertilizer rates to maximize the benefits for particular
soil and climatic regions, and these can only be determined
through experimentation. The study was conducted near Mohale’s
Hoek and Roma, Lesotho. High erosion rates and low soil
fertility make the farmlands of Lesotho in sub-Saharan Africa an
ideal region to profit from the benefits of CA, particularly the
potential to increase the maize yields in a country that is a
net importer of its staple food despite the vast areas of land
under maize production. There is currently no scientific data
confirming even fertilizer recommendations, plant populations,
or date of planting for growing maize