SCIENCE@home

Experiment of "No-Tillage" Farming System on the Volcanic Soils of Tropical Islands of Micronesia

M. Golabi,S. El‐Swaify,C. Iyekar

Published 2014 in International Soil and Water Conservation Research

ABSTRACT

Abstract The soils of southern Guam are formed from very deep; well-drained Saprolite derived from volcanic based tuff and tuff breccias. These soils suffer severe erosion as the result of rapid overland flow, wind and intensive rain events typical of southern Guam. An integrated approach to control the accelerated soil erosion was designed to include conservation tillage, crop rotation with leguminous plant, and residue management for soil surface cover. The objectives of this study are; 1) to evaluate the use of crop rotation and tillage management for increasing organic-matter content to improve the overall quality of these severely eroded soils, 2) to evaluate the effect of conservation practices on harvested yield and crop productivity of these eroded soils and, 3) to assess the effects of conservation techniques including no-tillage systems on water runoff and infiltration. This paper discusses the effect of conservation strategies and techniques on these severely eroded soils of southern Guam.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2014

  • Venue

    International Soil and Water Conservation Research

  • Publication date

    2014-06-01

  • Fields of study

    Agricultural and Food Sciences, Geology, Environmental Science

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.1016/S2095-6339(15)30004-6
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

CITATION MAP

EXTRACTION MAP

CLAIMS

  • No claims are published for this paper.

CONCEPTS

  • No concepts are published for this paper.

REFERENCES

Showing 1-22 of 22 references · Page 1 of 1

CITED BY

Showing 1-7 of 7 citing papers · Page 1 of 1