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Effect Of Bacillus Spp. On Root Knot Nematode Population And Galling In Beans
(University of Nairobi, 2000)
The Effect Of Post-harvest Crop Cover On Soil Erosion In A Maize-legume Based Cropping System In Gatanga, Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2002)
The study was conducted on farmers' fields in Gatanga Division, Thika District of Central Kenya with the aim of assessing the effect of selected legume cover crops on soil erosion especially at the onset of the rain season ...
Assessing The Ability Of Two Soil Types In The Removal And Retention Of N And P Nutrients From Fish Pond Effluents.
(University of Nairobi, 2004)
Effectiveness of two soil types found at Sagana, Kenya, black clay soil (eutric Vertisol) and a red clay soil (chromic Cambisol), in retaining nutrients from pond effluent was investigated. A laboratory experiment was ...
Evaluation of phosphorus uptake from Minjingu Phosphate rock, growth and nodulation of agroforestry tree species in an acid soil from Kenya. In: Assessment of soil phosphorus status and management of phosphatic fertilizer
(University of Nairobi, 2002)
Most acid soils of the tropics and subtropics show a widespread phosphorus (P) deficiency and high P sorption capacity, and therefore require substantial P inputs for optimum plant growth and production of food and fiber. ...
Available technologies to replenish soil fertility in East Africa
(University of Nairobi, 2007)
Low inherent soil fertility in the highly weathered and leached soils largely accounts for low and unsustained crop yields in most African countries. But in particular, the major nutrients, nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), ...
Gray en la solubilidad de rocas fosfóricas: experimento de incubación de laboratorio
(University of Nairobi,, 2004)
A 16-week laboratory incubation experiment was
conducted to evalua
te the effect of
Tithonia
diversifolia
leaves on the dissolution of Minjingu
(MPR) and Busumbu (BRP) rock phosphates in a
Kenyan Oxisol. Triple ...
Agrotechnological Transfer Of Legume Inoculants In Eastern And Southern Africa
(University of Nairobi,, 2002)
Legumes are an important component of smallholder farming systems
in Eastern and Southern Africa and efforts are underway to improve
legume yields and symbiotic biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) for
replenishment of N ...