Objective
THIS PROJECT CONTINUES THE WORK BEGUN IN OUR COLLABORATIVE PROJECT UNDER STD 2. PRESENT COLLABORATORS ARE : THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, ESTACION EXPERIMENTAL DEL ZAIDIN, GRANADA, SPAIN AND THE UNIVERSITY 0F COSTA RICA. THIS PROPOSED PROJECT WOULD ALSO INCLUDE THE INSTITUTE 0F TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY. UK.
WE HAVE LARGE (2+HA.), CAREFULLY MONITORED TRIAL AREAS OF ALLEY-CROPPING AND CLEAR CROPPING IN THE HUMID TROPICAL LOWLANDS OF COSTA RICA. THE SOIL IS VERY ACID (ULTISOL) ; PHOSPHORUS AVAILABILITY IS VERY LOW ; PHOSPHORUS SORBTION BY ALL BUT THE MOST SUPERFICIAL SOIL LAYERS IS VERY HIGH. MULCHING THE SOIL WITH FRESHLY PRUNED FOLIAGE FROM CERTAIN ACID-TOLERANT LEGUME TREE SPECIES, GROWN IN SITU, PRODUCES A VERY MARKED RAISING 0F (MYCORRHIZAL) FINE ROOTS OF THE ALLEY TREES AND CROP PLANTS. APPLICATION 0F ROCK PHOSPHORUS TO THIS MULCH PRODUCES A RESPONSE IN THE CROPS AND TREES AND APPEARS TO DEFEAT PHOSPHORUS SORBTION IN THE SOIL. APPLICATION OF GROUND BASIC ROCKS BENEFITS THE SYSTEM.
OUR FOCUS oF INTEREST IS IN SUSTAINABILITY OF PRODUCTION ;THESE PROCESSES ARE VITAL To IT. WE SHALL HAVE 3 YEARS' CROPPING DATA BY THE END OF THE PROJECT UNDER STD 2 ;FOR CONSIDERATIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY WE SHALL NEED 7 YEARS.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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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 ecology
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture grains and oilseeds legumes
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CB2 3EN Cambridge
United Kingdom
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