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Conservation agriculture improves yield and potassium balance in intensive rice systems
Intensive rice-based systems are mining soil potassium (K) due to negative K balances. Conservation Agriculture (CA) practices may increase yield and economic return of rice-based systems but there is limited ...
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Greenhouse gas emissions from paddy fields in Bangladesh compared to top twenty rice producing countries and emission reduction strategies
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture contribute to global warming. Total GHG emissions from paddy fields based on life cycle assessments are limited in develo** countries because of data lacking. ...
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Estimation of Crop Water Requirement and Irrigation Scheduling of Rice in Southeastern Region of Bangladesh Using FAO-CROPWAT 8.0
Water resource is scarce in most of the areas of Bangladesh during dry period due to changing climate impact. The shortage of water resources is endangering the recently achieved self-sufficiency of food produ...
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Water management and soil amendment for reducing emission factor and global warming potential but improving rice yield
Alternate wetting and drying (AWD) for growing rice improves water productivity (WP), minimize methane emission and net ecosystem carbon balance (CO2), but might be responsible for increased nitrous oxide emissio...
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Open AccessSpatio-temporal distribution of reactive nitrogen species in relation to wheat cultivation in Bangladesh
Farmers generally use more nitrogen fertilizer than others for crop production in Bangladesh because of its visible growth symptoms. Such practice is responsible for extra reactive N (Nr) load to the environme...
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Meta-analysis and systematic review of laparoscopic versus open mesh repair for elective incisional hernia
The utility of laparoscopic repair in the treatment of incisional hernia repair is still contentious.
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Field Determination of Soil Moisture in the Root Zone of Deep Vertosols Using EM38 Measurements: Calibration and Application Issues
Electromagnetic induction sensors, such as the Geonics EM38, are used widely for monitoring and map** soil attributes via the apparent electrical conductivity (ECa) of the soil. The sensor response is the depth...
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The effects of iron plaque and phosphorus on yield and arsenic accumulation in rice
The effects of arsenate, Fe2+, and phosphate on amount and composition of Fe-oxide plaque at the rice-root surface and on the yield and arsenic accumulation in rice (cv. BRRI dhan33) were studied in a replicated ...
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Effects of soil application of neem (NeemAzal®-U) on different life stages of Liriomyza sativae (Diptera: Agromyzidae) on tomato in the humid tropics
NeemAzal®-U, a formulation containing 17% azadirachtin developed for soil treatments, was tested in air conditioned laboratories and net greenhouses in Thailand to control Liriomyza sativae Blanchard (Diptera: Ag...
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The problem of boron deficiency in crop production in Bangladesh
Boron (B) deficiency problems for crop production have been identified recently in Bangladesh. Information on the subject is still limited. Deficiency symptoms typical of B have been observed in a wide range o...
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Structure of ferrichrome-type siderophores with dissimilarN δ-acyl groups: Asperchrome B1,B2,3,D1, D2 and D3
Asperchromes are a series of iron-chelating compounds which contain a cyclic hexapeptide backbone as in ferrichrome siderophores and differ from the latter in having heterogenous acyl groups in the ornithine s...
