Éditeur(s) : Université des Antilles. Service commun de la documentation University of West Indies, Trinidad &Tobago
Extrait de : 52e congrès annuel de la Société caribéenne des plantes alimentaires / 52nd annual meeting of the Caribbean food crops society (CFCS), du 10 au 16 juillet 2016. INRA, CFCS
Description : Crop nutrient management is a critical component of productivity and quality. Commercial horticulture has relied almost exclusively on inorganic nutrient sources to satisfy plant nutritional requirements. Compost tea represents a sustainable alternative technology but its use has not been extensively researched. A factorial experiment was conducted subjecting lettuce plants to four increasing concentrations of compost tea; 0, 5, 10 and 20 % (m/v) applied at either 100 or 200 cm3 plant-1 day-1, for 30 days. At the end of the trial, measurements were made of leaf area (LA), yield, shoot and root dry mass (DM), root to shoot ratio, and nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) contents of shoots and roots. Compost tea concentration significantly (P < 0.05) affected all growth indices showing a similar pattern. Increasing concentration up to 10 % (m/v), positively improved growth and yield above the control. Increasing further to 20 % (m/v) reduced LA, yield and dry mass. For these variables, applying compost tea at 200 cm3 plant-1 day-1 resulted in a better response. Increasing concentration of compost tea showed a directly proportional relationship to shoot and root N content. However, the effect was non-significant for P. Yield and shoot DM were affected by the combination of compost tea concentration and application rate. Similar patterns of increasing yield were seen for increasing concentration within both rates however, the differences were significant for all concentrations at the higher application rate. Application of 200 cm3, 5 % compost tea resulted in the greatest yield, shoot and root DM. In addition to root DM, root surface area was significantly correlated with yield and shoot DM. Compost tea used at appropriate concentrations improved root growth and lettuce productivity.
Siècle(s) traité(s) : 21
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V16281

Éditeur(s) : University of Florida University of Florida ( Gainesville FL )
Résumé : (Bibliography) Includes bibliographical references (p. 55).
(Statement of Responsibility) J. Alvarez, P.E. Hildebrand, and J.A. Nova.
Caption title.
Printed in Small Farms Systems of the Caribbean, Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Food Crops Society (St. Croix, U.S. Virigin Islands, October 21-26, 1984).
Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic

76891998

Éditeur(s) : University of West Indies, Trinidad &Tobago Université des Antilles. Service commun de la documentation
Extrait de : 52e congrès annuel de la Société caribéenne des plantes alimentaires / 52nd annual meeting of the Caribbean food crops society (CFCS), du 10 au 16 juillet 2016. INRA, CFCS
Description : Carbon dioxide (CO2) accounts for the largest proportion (74%) of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally, with agricultural activities contributing approximately 25% of this gas. Opportunities to reduce the emissions in the sector can therefore contribute significantly to mitigating global climate change. Ag-lime is used extensively to alleviate problems of soil acidity and the potential for this material to contribute to C sequestration in soils is gaining interest among researchers. A laboratory experiment using C-13 isotopic labelling techniques was therefore established to answer the following questions: 1) Is there a potential for sequestering C using ag-lime in Trinidad acid soils? 2) Does enhancing soil microbial respiration by applying labile organic amendments enhance the C sequestration potential of ag-lime? 3) Are lime-derived C (LDC) estimates from non-isotopic difference technique comparable to that from the C- 13 isotopic labelling technique? The results ascertained for the study showed significant (P<0.05) differences between the LDC estimates from the two techniques with the non-isotopic techniques yielding higher estimates. Over the 32- day experiment, between 16.4 to 85.4% of the ag-lime C was released as CO2 with values being lower for the Piarco soil. The LDC in the CO2 was also significantly (P<0.05) lower for the poultry litter treatments comparison to the other organic amendments for the Piarco soil but not the Nariva soil. This effect may not have been as a result of an enhancement of the carbon sequestration potential of the ag-lime due to an elevation in soil microbial respiration since the LDC in the glucose-amended soils did not differ significantly from the no-amendment control soils.
Siècle(s) traité(s) : 21
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V16308

Éditeur(s) : University of Florida University of Florida ( Gainesville Fla. )
Résumé : (Statement of Responsibility) J. K. McDermott.
"August 8-19, 1977."
Photocopy.
"Primary purpose of this trip was to provide an input for the annual evaluation of the USAID multiple cropping project being implemented through a grant to CENTA in the form of a contract with the University of Florida."
El Salvador
El Salvador
El Salvador

226299604

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier Masson
Résumé : Fire-free forest conversion with organic inputs as an alternative to slash-and-burn could improve agro-ecosystem sustainability. We assessed soil carbon mass changes in a sandy-clayey and well-drained soil in French Guiana after forest clearing by the chop-and-mulch method and crop establishment. At the experimental site of Combi, native forest was cut down in October 2008; woody biomass was chopped and incorporated into the top 20 cm of soil. After about one year of legume and grass cover, three forms of land management were compared: grassland (Urochloa ruziziensis), maize/soybean crop rotation with disk tillage and in direct seeding without tillage. There were four replicates. We measured 14.16 kg m(-2) of carbon in 2 mm-sieved soil down to 2 m depth for the initial forest. Forest clearing did not induce significant soil compaction; neither did any specific agricultural practice. In converted soils, C stocks were measured in the 0-30 cm layer after each crop for three years. Carbon mass changes for soil fractions <2 mm (soil C stock) and >2 mm (soil C pool) in the 0-5, 5-10, 10-20 and 20-30 cm soil layers were assessed on an equivalent soil mass basis. One year and 1.5 years after deforestation, higher C stocks (+0.64 to 1.16 kg C m(-2) yr(-1)) and C pools (+0.52 to 0.90 kg C m(-2) yr(-1)) were measured in converted soils, compared to those of the forest into the top 30 cm of soil. However, the masses of carbon in these converted soils declined later. The highest rates of carbon decrease were measured between 1.5 and 2 years after forest conversion in the <2 mm soil fraction, from 0.46 kg Cm-2 yr(-1) (in grassland soils) to 0.71 kg C m(-2) yr(-1) (in cropland under no tillage). The carbon pool declined during the third year at rates of 0.41 kg C m(-2) yr(-1) (cropland under disk tillage) to 0.76 kg C m(-2) yr(-1) (grassland soils). Three years after forest conversion, C masses in the top 30 cm of soils for grassland showed similar values than for forest. In comparison, the carbon stock in cropped soils managed under no tillage in direct seeding (without mulch) was significantly 17% and 16% lower than in forest and grassland soils, respectively. None of the studied agricultural practices succeeded in accumulating carbon from the chopped forest biomass.
ISSN: 0167-8809

hal-01032438
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01032438
DOI : 10.1016/j.agee.2013.11.009

Éditeur(s) : Sector Publico Agricola, Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnologia Agricolas Sector Publico Agricola, Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnologia Agricolas
Résumé : Cover title.
"May, 1977."
"An invited paper prepared for the Round Table Discussion on Agricultural Production Systems, XVI Annual Reunion of the Board of Directors, Instituto Interamericano de Ciencias Agricolas -- IICA, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, May 18, 1977."
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 23-24).
(Funding) Electronic resources created as part of a prototype UF Institutional Repository and Faculty Papers project by the University of Florida.
Guatemala.
Caribbean
Guatemala

ocm7152

Éditeur(s) : University of Florida University of Florida ( Gainesville FL )
Résumé : (Bibliography) Includes bibliographical references (p. 55).
(Statement of Responsibility) J. Alvarez, P.E. Hildebrand, and J.A. Nova.
Caption title.
Printed in Small Farms Systems of the Caribbean, Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Food Crops Society (St. Croix, U.S. Virigin Islands, October 21-26, 1984).
Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic

76891998

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Caribbean Food Crops Society
Résumé : A compléter avec les actes
First agroecological zoning for the french caribbean: a decision support tool. 51. Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Food Crops Society (CFCS)
51. Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Food Crops Society (CFCS)
Paramaribo, Suriname

hal-01603749
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01603749
PRODINRA : 383267

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Royal Meteorological Society
Résumé : Assessing the impact/adaptation of human activities on/to climate change is a key issue, especially in the tropics that concentrate major anthropogenic dynamics such as deforestation and nearly two-thirds of the planetary rainfall. However, this task is often made tough because human activities such as agricultural dynamics are usually analysed at local or regional scale whereas climate related studies are led at large to global scales due to a lack of reliable data, especially in the tropics. In this article we argue that the increased spatial resolution of remote sensing-based rainfall estimates enables assessing the spatiotemporal variability of rainfall regimes at regional and local scales, thus allowing fine analysis of the interactions with human activities. We processed Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) 3B42 daily rainfall estimates over the state of Mato Grosso (southern Brazilian Amazon) for the 1998-2012 study period in order to compute rainfall metrics such as annual rainfall and duration, onset and end dates of the rainy season based on the Anomalous Accumulation methodology (at a 0.25◦ spatial resolution). We then crossed these metrics with agricultural maps (produced at a 250m spatial resolution) and proved that the adoption of intensive agricultural practices such as double cropping systems is partly the result of a strategy to adapt practices to local climatic conditions. Finally, we discuss how such results raise important issues regarding the sustainability of the agricultural development model in the Southern Amazon.
International Journal of Climatology

halshs-00910825
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00910825
DOI : 10.1002/joc.3863

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Caribbean Food Crops Society
Résumé : Compléter après parution des actesAjouter résuméDéposer document paginéAjouter MC
Productive dynamics and agroecological potential of the territory of Guadeloupe: a geographer analysis. 52. Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Food Crops Society (CFCS)
Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting "Engineering ecological modernization of agriculture; Exploring the potential of tropical biological resources for innovation; Towards a bio-economic development of Caribbean countries"
Le Gosier, Guadeloupe, France

hal-01608582
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01608582
PRODINRA : 383268

Éditeur(s) : Gauthier-Villars
Résumé : Differences appear to have a marked influence on the species composition of lagoon ecosystems around the world, but there are some remarkable similarities in nutrient dynamics, the standing crop of phytoplankton, annual primary production, and fisheries yields of many lagoons. For example, in many of the systems reviewed, the annual phosphate cycle was similar in timing and magnitude, primary production amounted to some 200-400 g C m super(-1) yr super(-1). There appears to be an empirical correlation between primary production and fisheries yields in a great variety of marine systems. The yield of lagoon fisheries per unit area is commonly as high or higher than that from the most productive coastal and offshore fisheries.
Oceanologica Acta, Special issue (0399-1784) (Gauthier-Villars), 1982

Droits : info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00246/35748/34256.pdf
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00246/35748/