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Influence of different plantain cropping systems on physical properties of soil and plantain bunch yield

dc.contributor.authorTueche, J.R.
dc.contributor.authorHauser, S.
dc.contributor.authorBanful, B.
dc.contributor.authorCadisch, Georg
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-04T11:09:20Z
dc.date.available2019-12-04T11:09:20Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationTueche, J.R., Hauser, S., Banful, B. & Cadisch, G. (2011). Influence of different plantain cropping systems on physical properties of soil and plantain bunch yield. Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science, 57(7), 789-803.
dc.identifier.issn0365-0340
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/2024
dc.descriptionPublished online: 20 June 2011
dc.description.abstractInformation on the effects of soil physical properties on plantain yield is rare. A factorial trial was conducted in three southern Cameroonian villages comparing four cropping systems comprising: two planted legumes, (1) Flemingia macrophylla and (2) Pueraria phaseoloides; a crop, (3) hot pepper; and (4) natural regrowth, all planted to plantain established in old forest versus young bush fallow. Initially, bush fallow had significantly higher sand content, mean weight diameter (MWD) and proportion of macroaggregates, but lower clay content and lower proportions of mesoaggregates and microaggregates than forest soil. Between 2002 and 2006, clay and silt content, MWD, geometric mean diameter and the proportion of macroaggregates increased, whereas sand content, bulk density, and the proportions of mesoaggregates and microaggregates decreased in all villages, fallows and cropping systems. Changes in aggregate stability parameters were greater in forest than in bush fallow at Ngoumou and Mfou, and greater in the F. macrophylla and natural regrowth systems than in the pepper and Pueraria systems. In Ngoumou and Nkometou, available water capacity increased. Plantain fresh-bunch yield was unaffected by village, fallow and cropping systems, and was not correlated with soil physical properties or their changes.
dc.format.extent789-803
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectFlemingia Macrophylla
dc.subjectPlantains
dc.subjectPueraria Phaseoloides
dc.subjectSoil Physical Properties
dc.subjectFresh-Bunch Yield
dc.subjectCropping Systems
dc.titleInfluence of different plantain cropping systems on physical properties of soil and plantain bunch yield
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.description.versionPeer Review
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversität Hohenheim
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.contributor.affiliationCouncil for Scientific and Industrial Research, Ghana
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionCentral Africa
cg.coverage.countryCameroon
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country institute
cg.iitasubjectCrop Systems
cg.iitasubjectFarming Systems
cg.iitasubjectPlantain
cg.journalArchives of Agronomy and Soil Science
cg.howpublishedFormally Published
cg.accessibilitystatusLimited Access
local.dspaceid85827
cg.targetaudienceScientists
cg.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03650340.2010.485986


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