Soil erosion control and carbon sequestration in shifting cultivated degraded highlands of eastern India: performance of two contour hedgerow systems

Adhikary, Partha Pratim; Hombegowda, H. C.; Barman, D.; Jakhar, Praveen; Madhu, M.

doi:10.1007/s10457-016-9958-3

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“…Ld: Leucaena diversifolia; Ll: Leucaena leucocephala (LlH, 'Honduras'; LlI, 'India'; LlK, 'K360'). Loaiza et al, 2017;Dalzell, 2019), soil erosion control and therefore reduced run-off and improved water quality (Shelton and Dalzell, 2007;Adhikary et al, 2017), and high quality fodder for ruminant livestock (Gusha et al, 2017;Leketa et al, 2019;Santana et al, 2019). All this can reactivate the rural economy while providing environmental benefits.…”

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Short rotation coppice of leguminous tree Leucaena spp. improves soil fertility while producing high biomass yields in Mediterranean environment

Fernández

Alaejos

Andivia

et al. 2020

Industrial Crops and Products

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Short rotation coppice of leguminous tree Leucaena spp. improves soil fertility while producing high biomass yields in Mediterranean environment

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Alaejos

Andivia

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Industrial Crops and Products

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“…En India utilizan las cercas vivas como rompevientos y para aumentar la retención de la humedad del suelo mediante la acumulación de la hojarasca (Cuadro 1). Además, tienen un rol importante en el control de la erosión de los suelos por medio de la disminución de la velocidad de escorrentía en los sistemas productivos; ya que la erosión reiterada por escorrentía impide la formación de humus estable en el suelo (Adhikary, Hombegowda, Barman, Jakhar, & Madhu, 2016).…”

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“…En Asia tropical, los agricultores adoptan las cercas vivas esencialmente porque perciben servicios que les favorecen sobre los rendimientos de los sistemas productivos, incluso no se preocupan por la disposición o técnica de plantación de las cercas vivas, sino que se preocupan por la generación de dividendos a corto plazo (Agus et al, 1999). Es importante destacar que los agricultores de esta región tropical, no tienen en cuenta la conservación de la biodiversidad en la instalación de cercas vivas, sino que buscan aportar en mayor medida los nutrientes importantes del suelo como lo pueden ser el nitrógeno, fosforo y especialmente carbono orgánico (Rowe et al, 2001;Weerasinghe, 2007;Adhikary et al, 2016).…”

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Cercas vivas en sistemas de producción tropicales: una revisión mundial de los usos y percepciones

Morantes-Toloza

Renjifo

2018

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Live fences in tropical production systems: a global review of uses and perceptions. The expansion of agricultural and livestock production has been a key factor in deforestation in the world and especially in the tropical region. Currently, more than half of the Earth’s surface is used for the establishment of production systems; in this context, live fences can generate positive effects on the environment and provide environmental goods and services. In this work, we reviewed the effects of live fences on production systems from the tropical regions of America, Africa, Asia and Australia, analyzing the uses and perceptions of farmers that have made use of these fences. It was found that live fences were mainly related to the delimitation of farms and pastures. However, their uses and benefits are manifold, among which we found: provide forage, wood extraction, fruit supply, windbreaks, medicinal, to avoid soil erosion, moisture retention and nutritional support. In addition, other positive perceptions were: increasing landscape connectivity, increasing economic incomes, reducing production costs, reducing pressure on remaining vegetation, keeping maintenance costs down, contributing to pest control, and improving fertility. However, negative perceptions included the excessive work in repairing or pruning them, shade negative impact on agricultural production, lack of information discourages establishment, high establishment costs, generation of property conflicts and management difficulty. It was found that the uses by farmers are focused on improving the yields of productive systems, but also on the conservation of natural resources especially soil and biodiversity. We proposed research topics for the future, as determining the criteria in the selection of native species to establish and enrich living fences valuing ecological and socioeconomic aspects; in additionally, we must deepen the benefits they produce on the yields of productive systems. We suggest the development of live fences studies in the tropical region of Australasia, because no data was found for this region, in order to know the biodiversity and services status that they provide to the rural communities. As a conclusion, it will be important to generate initiatives that encourage the formulation of rural policies, the creation of programs that encourage the establishment of live fences, whether through payments for environmental services, tax compensation or other mechanisms. Providing adequate information to farmers and livestock farmers is a key aspect on dynamizing the establishment of live fences. Rev. Biol. Trop. 66(2): 739-753. Epub 2018 June 01.

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“…Investigations of the SWC benefits of hedgerows were initiated in the 1980s (Kang et al 1985), mainly focusing on hedgerow varieties (Hu et al 2017;, spatial allocation (Xu et al 1999;Merz et al 2009;Liu et al 2019), and their effects and mechanisms (Sun et al 1999;Sudhishri et al 2008;Ren et al 2019). Studies have revealed that hedgerows are effective at intercepting surface runoff (Chaubey et al 1995;Xia et al 2014;Kervroëdan et al 2018), controlling soil erosion (Banda et al 1994;Lenka et al 2012;Léa et al 2018), forming terraced slopes (Peng et al 2009;Fan et al 2015;Ma et al 2017), improving soil properties (Kiepe 1995;Adhikary et al 2017) and can affect crop yield (Shively 1998;Kang et al 1999). Hedgerows have achieved good results globally in mountainous areas from tropical zones to temperate zones.…”

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“…On the other hand, it usually takes a long time for hedgerows to provide significant beneficial SWC effects from the initial planting to reach maturity, and more attention must be paid to the effects during the growth and succession stages of the plants. Some experiments have explored the role of perennial hedgerows on SWC through in situ observations (Lin et al 2009;Lenka et al 2012;Adhikary et al 2017), but few investigations have examined their dynamic changes during the entire developmental progression, and there are no studies that continually address better understanding their SWC benefits .…”

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Quantified Benefits of Cultivating Day-Lily (Hemerocallis citrina) Hedgerows over Multiple Years on Sloped Red-Soil Farmland, Southern China

Zheng

Hong-ren

et al. 2020

J Soil Sci Plant Nutr

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Planting hedgerows is an effective measure for increasing soil and water conservation on sloped farmland, although the comprehensive and dynamic changes in benefits across the life span of the hedgerow are not fully understood. To expand our understanding in this area, day-lily (Hemerocallis citrina) was selected to research the effect of hedgerows built on sloped red-soil farmland in southern China. In situ observations of runoff and soil loss from 2012 to 2018 were recorded in triplicate for two treatments: (1) conventional downslope-ridge tillage (CT) and (2) hedgerow intercropping with downslope-ridge tillage (HT). Micro-topography, soil nutrient content, and crop yield changes in the study plots were recorded. Hedgerows began intercepting runoff and soil loss simultaneously from the second year after they were planted, reducing annual surface runoff (35-66%) and annual erosive sediment (32-87%). As hedgerows became established, they provided increasing positive effects on soil and water conservation. However, those beneficial effects were gradually obscured by changes in micro-topography. The presence of the hedgerow had no obvious influence on soil total nutrient contents under this experimental condition. On average, planting the hedgerow reduced peanut yield by 21% but reduced rapeseed yield only by 2%. Compared with CT treatment, the average economic output of HT treatment after reaching the hedge's initial production was 1.52 times greater, showing a quadratic trend and reaching a maximum about 4 years after construction by regression. These findings indicate that hedgerow management could be optimized according to the desired beneficial soil and water conservation or crop yield characteristics in different developmental phases.

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Soil erosion control and carbon sequestration in shifting cultivated degraded highlands of eastern India: performance of two contour hedgerow systems

Cited by 46 publications

References 39 publications

Short rotation coppice of leguminous tree Leucaena spp. improves soil fertility while producing high biomass yields in Mediterranean environment

Short rotation coppice of leguminous tree Leucaena spp. improves soil fertility while producing high biomass yields in Mediterranean environment

Cercas vivas en sistemas de producción tropicales: una revisión mundial de los usos y percepciones

Quantified Benefits of Cultivating Day-Lily (Hemerocallis citrina) Hedgerows over Multiple Years on Sloped Red-Soil Farmland, Southern China

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