Objective
We aim to reverse declining crop yield in dry land Africa by using N fixing trees to improve soil fertility in a novel agro forestry system. Wet season tree leaves will be used as mulch to improve soil fertility dry season leaves will be sold as dry season fodder to generate secondary income for the purchase and application frock P. N fixation will be maximised by matching tree and symbiotic genotypes. Availability will be increased by mycorrhizas. Success of the applied microsymbionts will be followed in the field using DNA techniques. Economics will be examined and laboratory microbiological procedures used to maximise N fixation and P availability. Water use will be assessed to ensure sustainability in terms of water balance. N fixing tree fodder sales and P application will provide appositive feedback to increase farm income generation. The high value indigenous Pterocarpus erinaceus and more promising exotic Gliricidia sepium will be compared.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics DNA
- social sciences economics and business economics
- social sciences sociology demography fertility
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture industrial crops fodder
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries forestry
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AB31 4BW BANCHORY(KINCARDINSHIRE)
United Kingdom
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