The Potential Use Of Rock Phosphate In Sudan For Sustainable Agricultural Production

Author : Inaam Saad
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781662461224

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The Potential Use of Rock Phosphate in Sudan for Sustainable Agricultural Production by Inaam Saad Pdf

Agriculture is primarily the uppermost important sector in Sudan, contributing significantly to the country’s national economy. However, in spite of the country’s vast cultivated area, productivity remains very low. The declining agricultural production is indicative of the need for adopting sustainable agricultural development approaches to the achieve country’s food security. The attainment of sustainable agricultural production will require the proper use of all available resources such as land, water, and mineral resources, including the phosphate rock reserves. Rock phosphate deposits of potential economic value occur at more than a hundred locations in sub-Saharan African countries, including Sudan. Several geological surveys in Sudan have proven the occurrence of abundant resources of phosphate deposits in different locations in the country. For advocating the initiation of rock phosphate mining and phosphate fertilizer industry in Sudan, this book delivers sufficient and validated information on the underutilized resource of rock phosphate in Sudan and exposes its potential role in the development of sustainable agricultural production. The book presents an accurate image of the current status and prospective scenario in relation to rock phosphate deposits and the potential establishment of the fertilizer industry in Sudan. The book presents a comprehensive literature review on the history, advantages, and impacts of using rock phosphate. It also sheds light on the rock phosphate deposits in Sudan, their locations, and geological and agricultural quality as compared to rock phosphate from other global resources. The book presents two detailed case studies on assessing the agronomic value of Kurun and Uro rock phosphate rocks as fertilizers and their environmental impact assessment. The book then highlights the potential benefits of phosphate mining and the initiation of the phosphate fertilizer industry in Sudan, proposes a plan for achieving that goal, and presents recommendations to bring the Sudanese phosphate fertilizer industry to life.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Land and Water Development Division,International Atomic Energy Agency
Publisher : Fao
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015053029909

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Use of Phosphate Rocks for Sustainable Agriculture by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Land and Water Development Division,International Atomic Energy Agency Pdf

Extensive research on the agronomic potential and actual effectiveness of phosphate rocks (PRs) as sources of phosphorus has been carried out in Africa, Asia, Latin America and elsewhere. This publication brings together a wide range of available information on key issues regarding the use of PRs in agriculture, including world deposits; characteristics of sources; evaluation methodologies for direct application of PR (DAPR); analysis of biophysical and farming factors; development and use of decision-support systems for DAPR; soil P testing for PR application; available technologies for enhancing the agronomic effectiveness of indigenous PR sources; environmental issues; legislation guidelines; and future research priorities.

Author : H. Gerner,A. Uzo Mokwunye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Phosphate rock
ISBN : 088090111X

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Use of Phosphate Rock for Sustainable Agriculture in West Africa by H. Gerner,A. Uzo Mokwunye Pdf

Author : Asif Iqbal,Mazhar Iqbal,Madeeha Alamzeb,Song Meizhen,Zhang Xiling,Muhammad Arif,Xiongming Du,Eric Lichtfouse
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031161551

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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 58 by Asif Iqbal,Mazhar Iqbal,Madeeha Alamzeb,Song Meizhen,Zhang Xiling,Muhammad Arif,Xiongming Du,Eric Lichtfouse Pdf

This book presents recently-developed crop, soil, and management practices that can be used to improve phosphorous use efficiency in agriculture. Food security highly depends on the availability of plant nutrients such as phosphorus, yet rock phosphate reserves are expected to be exhausted in the next 50–100 years. Moreover, about 80% of the phosphorous fertilizers applied to soils become unavailable to plants due to phosphorous fixation in iron and aluminum oxides in acidic soils and with carbonates in alkaline soils. As a consequence, only 10-15% of applied phosphorous is up taken by crops. Therefore, there is a need for advanced practices for improving phosphorus use efficiency.

Author : Mohamed Behnassi,Shabbir A. Shahid,Joyce D'Silva
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400705197

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Sustainable Agricultural Development by Mohamed Behnassi,Shabbir A. Shahid,Joyce D'Silva Pdf

Due to many challenges (i.e. climate change, energy, water and land shortage, high demands on food, land grabbing, etc.), agriculture production potential is expected to be seriously affected; thus, increasing food insecurity and hunger in many already affected regions (especially in Africa). In this context, sustainable agriculture is highly recommended as an eco-system approach where soil, water, plants, environment and living organisms live in harmony. Innovative technologies and research should be developed to ensure sustainable agriculture and productivity using modern irrigation systems, improved varieties, improved soil quality, etc. In the meantime, the preservation of natural environment should be based on resource conservation technologies and best management practices. Sustainable Agricultural Development, not only raises the serious ethical and social issues underlying these huge environmental problems, but also aims at presenting successful experiences from all over the world in relation with sustainable farming, sustainable management of water and land resources, and innovative processes in livestock production. It also aims at providing inputs to decision making processes and encouraging the transfer of relevant know-how, technologies and expertise to different countries where similar agro-climatic conditions may exist; thus saving precious resources and promoting sustainable agricultural development as a relevant approach to tackle the food security challenge. Finally, this book focuses on the paradigmatic and policy dimensions and call for an innovative approach by analyzing the key themes in a complex and interrelated manner.

Author : Karl Schneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Alternative agriculture
ISBN : MINN:31951D01471796D

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Alternative Farming Systems, Economic Aspects by Karl Schneider Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCR:31210010454104

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Quick Bibliography Series by Anonim Pdf

Author : Uzo M. Mokwunye,Paul L.G. Vlek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789400943988

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Management of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Fertilizers in Sub-Saharan Africa by Uzo M. Mokwunye,Paul L.G. Vlek Pdf

Food security, one of the basic human rights, seems to be ever eluding the people of sub-Saharan Africa. With each occurrence of crop failure, agriculturalists around the world reawaken to the challenge of ensuring sta ble, adequate food production in the tropical African environments. The International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC), with its mandate of alleviating food shortages through judicial use of fertilizers, formulated a program to study fertilizer use strategies for sub-Saharan Africa. With gener ous financial assistance from the International Fund for Agricultural Devel opment (IFAD), IFDC, in collaboration with the International Crop Re search Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IIT A), initiated a research project aimed at assessing means to remedy soil nutrient deficiencies that constrain food production in the humid, subhumid, and semiarid tropics of Africa. The results of this project were summarized during a workshop held in Togo, March 25-28, 1985; the proceedings of that meetings are found in this vol ume. The project established collaboration with numerous national programs that were responsible for much of the data collection. The data presented in Chapters 6 and 9 include much of this information. We wish to acknowledge the contribution of the individual scientists, J.T. Ambe, F. Ganry, M. Gaoh, M. Issaka, J. Kiazolu, J. Kikafunde-Twine, K. Kpomblekou, F. Lompo, H.

Author : Maurizio Ruzzi,Giuseppe Colla ,Youssef Rouphael
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 1221 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832550175

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Biostimulants in Agriculture II: Towards a Sustainable Future by Maurizio Ruzzi,Giuseppe Colla ,Youssef Rouphael Pdf

Modern agriculture needs to review and broaden its practices and business models, by integrating opportunities coming from different adjacent sectors and value chains, including the bio-based industry, in a fully circular economy strategy. Searching for new tools and technologies to increase crop productivity under optimal and sub-optimal conditions and to improve resources use efficiency is crucial to ensure food security while preserving soil quality, microbial biodiversity, and providing business opportunities for farmers. Biostimulants based on microorganisms or organic substances obtained from renewable materials represent a sustainable, efficient technology or complement to synthetic counterparts, to improve nutrient use efficiency and secure crop yield stability. Under the new European Union Regulation 2019/1009, plant biostimulants were defined based on four agricultural functional claims as follows: Plant biostimulants are products that stimulate plant nutrition processes independently of the product's nutrient content with the sole aim of improving one or more of the following characteristics of the plant and/or the plant rhizosphere: 1) nutrient use efficiency, 2) tolerance resistance to (a)biotic stress, 3) quality characteristics or 4) availability of confined nutrients in the soil or rhizosphere’. Many diverse natural substances and chemical derivatives of natural or synthetic compounds, as well as beneficial microorganisms, are cataloged as plant biostimulants including i) humic substances, ii) plant or animal-based protein hydrolysates, iii) macro and micro-algal extracts, iv) silicon, v) arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and vi) plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) belonging to the Azotobacter, Azospirillum and Rhizobium genera.

Author : H. van Reuler,W. H. Prins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fertilizers
ISBN : WISC:89052490810

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The Role of Plant Nutrients for Sustainable Food Crop Production in Sub-Saharan Africa by H. van Reuler,W. H. Prins Pdf

Author : Amitava Rakshit,Harikesh Bahadur Singh,Avijit Sen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9788132221692

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Nutrient Use Efficiency: from Basics to Advances by Amitava Rakshit,Harikesh Bahadur Singh,Avijit Sen Pdf

This book addresses in detail multifaceted approaches to boosting nutrient use efficiency (NUE) that are modified by plant interactions with environmental variables and combine physiological, microbial, biotechnological and agronomic aspects. Conveying an in-depth understanding of the topic will spark the development of new cultivars and strains to induce NUE, coupled with best management practices that will immensely benefit agricultural systems, safeguarding their soil, water, and air quality. Written by recognized experts in the field, the book is intended to provide students, scientists and policymakers with essential insights into holistic approaches to NUE, as well as an overview of some successful case studies. In the present understanding of agriculture, NUE represents a question of process optimization in response to the increasing fragility of our natural resources base and threats to food grain security across the globe. Further improving nutrient use efficiency is a prerequisite to reducing production costs, expanding crop acreage into non-competitive marginal lands with low nutrient resources, and preventing environmental contamination. The nutrients most commonly limiting plant growth are N, P, K, S and micronutrients like Fe, Zn, B and Mo. NUE depends on the ability to efficiently take up the nutrient from the soil, but also on transport, storage, mobilization, usage within the plant and the environment. A number of approaches can help us to understand NUE as a whole. One involves adopting best crop management practices that take into account root-induced rhizosphere processes, which play a pivotal role in controlling nutrient dynamics in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. New technologies, from basic tools like leaf color charts to sophisticated sensor-based systems and laser land leveling, can reduce the dependency on laboratory assistance and manual labor. Another approach concerns the development of crop plants through genetic manipulations that allow them to take up and assimilate nutrients more efficiently, as well as identifying processes of plant responses to nutrient deficiency stress and exploring natural genetic variation. Though only recently introduced, the ability of microbial inoculants to induce NUE is gaining in importance, as the loss, immobilization, release and availability of nutrients are mediated by soil microbial processes.

Author : Manoj Parihar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819702961

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Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Sustainable Agriculture: Inoculum Production and Application by Manoj Parihar Pdf

Author : Ali Asghar Rastegari,Ajar Nath Yadav,Neelam Yadav
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128205273

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New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering by Ali Asghar Rastegari,Ajar Nath Yadav,Neelam Yadav Pdf

New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Trends of Microbial Biotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture and Biomedicine Systems: Diversity and Functional Perspectives describes how specific techniques can be used to generalize the metabolism of bacteria that optimize biologic improvement strategies and bio-transport processes. Microbial biotechnology focuses on microbes of agricultural, environmental, industrial, and clinical significance. This volume discusses several methods based on molecular genetics, systems, and biology of synthetic, genomic, proteomic, and metagenomics. Recent developments in our understanding of the role of microbes in sustainable agriculture and biotechnology have created a highly potential research area. The soil and plant microbiomes have a significant role in plant growth promotion, crop yield, soil health and fertility for sustainable developments. The microbes provide nutrients and stimulate plant growth through different mechanisms, including solubilization of phosphorus, potassium, and zinc; biological nitrogen fixation; production of siderophore, ammonia, HCN and other secondary metabolites which are antagonistic against pathogenic microbes. This new book provides an indispensable reference source for engineers/bioengineers, biochemists, biotechnologists, microbiologists, agrochemists, and researchers who want to know about the unique properties of this microbe and explore its sustainable agriculture future applications. Introduces the principles of microbial biotechnology and its application in plant growth and soil health for sustainable agriculture Explores various plant microbiomes and their beneficial impact on plant growth for crop improvement Explains the mechanisms of plant-microbe interaction and plant growth promotion Includes current applications of microbial consortium for enhance production of crop in eco-friendly manners

Author : Katerina Dontsova,Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad,Gaël Le Roux
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119413301

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Biogeochemical Cycles by Katerina Dontsova,Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad,Gaël Le Roux Pdf

Elements move through Earth's critical zone along interconnected pathways that are strongly influenced by fluctuations in water and energy. The biogeochemical cycling of elements is inextricably linked to changes in climate and ecological disturbances, both natural and man-made. Biogeochemical Cycles: Ecological Drivers and Environmental Impact examines the influences and effects of biogeochemical elemental cycles in different ecosystems in the critical zone. Volume highlights include: Impact of global change on the biogeochemical functioning of diverse ecosystems Biological drivers of soil, rock, and mineral weathering Natural elemental sources for improving sustainability of ecosystems Links between natural ecosystems and managed agricultural systems Non-carbon elemental cycles affected by climate change Subsystems particularly vulnerable to global change The American Geophysical Union promotes discovery in Earth and space science for the benefit of humanity. Its publications disseminate scientific knowledge and provide resources for researchers, students, and professionals. Book Review: http://www.elementsmagazine.org/archives/e16_6/e16_6_dep_bookreview.pdf

Author : H. Peter Van Straaten
Publisher : Guelph, Ont. : Department of Land Resource Science, University of Guelph
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Minerals
ISBN : 0889555125

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Rocks for Crops by H. Peter Van Straaten Pdf