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Knowing the African Soils to Improve Fertilizer Recommendations

  • Bationo A
  • Hartemink A
  • Lungu O
  • et al.
Springer Netherlands, (2012), 19-42
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2960-5_3
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Abstract

Africa is the continent with the lowest fertilizer use per hectare ­notwithstanding the fact it possesses geologically old, infertile and degraded soils. This chapter discusses the agro-ecological zones (AEZ) and main soil types in Africa followed by a section...

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Bationo, A., Hartemink, A., Lungu, O., Naimi, M., Okoth, P., Smaling, E., … Waswa, B. (2012). Knowing the African Soils to Improve Fertilizer Recommendations. In Improving Soil Fertility Recommendations in Africa using the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) (pp. 19–42). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2960-5_3

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