Search Results - "Kintche, K."

Long-term decline in soil fertility and responsiveness to fertiliser as mitigated by short fallow periods in sub-Sahelian area of Togo by Kintché, K, Guibert, H, Bonfoh, B, Tittonell, P

“…Using 40-year experiment data from a mono-modal rainfall area of northern Togo, we analyzed soil fertility dynamics when 2 and 3-year fallows were alternated…”
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Cassava yield loss in farmer fields was mainly caused by low soil fertility and suboptimal management practices in two provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Kintché, K., Hauser, S., Mahungu, N.M., Ndonda, A., Lukombo, S., Nhamo, N., Uzokwe, V.N.E., Yomeni, M., Ngamitshara, J., Ekoko, B., Mbala, M., Akem, C., Pypers, P., Matungulu, K.P., Kehbila, A., Vanlauwe, B.

“…•Effect of biotic and abiotic factors analysed on cassava yield gap in farmer fields.•Pest and disease played sparse role in yield loss of the cultivated…”
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Carbon losses and primary productivity decline in savannah soils under cotton-cereal rotations in semiarid Togo by Kintché, K, Guibert, H, Sogbedji, J. M, Levêque, J, Tittonell, P

“…Soil degradation in the savannah-derived agroecosystems of West Africa is often associated with rapid depletion of organic carbon stocks in soils of coarse…”
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Long-term mineral fertiliser use and maize residue incorporation do not compensate for carbon and nutrient losses from a Ferralsol under continuous maize–cotton cropping by Kintché, K., Guibert, H., Sogbedji, J.M., Levêque, J., Bonfoh, B., Tittonell, P.

“…•Long-term fertility of cultivated Ferralsol cannot be sustained without fertiliser input.•There was little justification to increase mineral fertiliser inputs…”
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Looking back and moving forward: 50 years of soil and soil fertility management research in sub-Saharan Africa by Vanlauwe, B., AbdelGadir, A. H., Adewopo, J., Adjei-Nsiah, S., Ampadu-Boakye, T., Asare, R., Baijukya, F., Baars, E., Bekunda, M., Coyne, D., Dianda, M., Dontsop-Nguezet, P. M., Ebanyat, P., Hauser, S., Huising, J., Jalloh, A., Jassogne, L., Kamai, N., Kamara, A., Kanampiu, F., Kehbila, A., Kintche, K., Kreye, C., Larbi, A., Masso, C., Matungulu, P., Mohammed, I., Nabahungu, L., Nielsen, F., Nziguheba, G., Pypers, P., Roobroeck, D., Schut, M., Taulya, G., Thuita, M., Uzokwe, V. N. E., van Asten, P., Wairegi, L., Yemefack, M., Mutsaers, H. J. W.

“…Low and declining soil fertility has been recognized for a long time as a major impediment to intensifying agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)…”
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Early planting of cassava enhanced the response of improved cultivars to potassium fertilization in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo by R., D. Birindwa, Van Laere, J., Munyahali, W., De Bauw, P., Dercon, G., Kintche, K., Merckx, R.

“…Cassava is the most important crop in DRC, where it is both a staple and a cash crop. Over the last years, cassava productivity seems increasingly constrained…”
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