ASSESSING UPLAND RICE, BIOCHAR AND SOIL NUTRIENT MODULES IN THE GUINEAN SAVANNA ZONE (NYANKPALA) GHANA
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Agricultural Production System simulator (APSIM), nutrient use efficiency, biochar, intercroppingAbstract
The Agricultural Production System simulator (APSIM) is a cropping modeling program that is employed to address research on intercropping systems. We tested it in the Guinea Savannah zone to increase nutrient and nutrient use efficiency to alter agricultural practices in rice-based farming system. Our approach was to calibrate and test the models Upland rice (Oryza sativa L.) and cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) intercrop, the interactions between crop growth and soil nitrogen (N), surface organic matter, biochar and the assessment of model projections against independent data sets. During calibration, parameters for crops and soil were developed to ensure that the model adequately captures soil nutrient dynamics under three different biochar plus half rate of inorganic fertilizer root mean square error (RMSE). Soil inorganic N dynamics RMSE 0.18 and 0.216 kg N ha-1 for 2018 and 2019 respectively, contrasting soil N mineralization patterns under the combination of biochar and inorganic fertilizer applications RMSE 3.86 and 3.18 kg N ha-1 for 2018 and 2019 respectively, straw N uptake RMSE 6.71 and 6.67 kg N ha-1 for 2018 and 2019 respectively, grain N uptake RMSE 478.62 and 605.33 kg ha-1 for 2018 and 2019 respectively. The calibrated model was evaluated against independent data on grain yield RMSE 315.18 and 460.04 kg ha-1 for 2018 and 2019 respectively, straw production RMSE 183.64 and100.08 kg ha-1 for 2018 and 2019 respectively and with a highly acceptable yield, particularly with respect to return-N relations. APSIM has proven to be a reliable model for research and decision-making to improve production systems in upland rice-cowpea intercrop in Nyankpala.
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Archontoulis, S. V., Miguez, F. E., & Moore, K. J. (2014). A methodology and an optimization tool to calibrate phenology of short-day species included in the APSIM PLANT model: application to soybean. Environmental modelling & software, 62, 465-477.
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Delve, R. J., Probert, M. E., Cobo, J. G., Ricaurte, J., Rivera, M., Barrios, E., & Rao, I. M. (2009). Simulating phosphorus responses in annual crops using APSIM: model evaluation on contrasting soil types. Nutrient cycling in agroecosystems, 84(3), 293-306.
De Jager, I. (2013). Nutritional benefits of legume consumption at household level in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Background document.
De Jager, I., Borgonjen-Van Den Berg, K. J., Giller, K. E., & Brouwer, I. D. (2019). Current and potential role of grain legumes on protein and micronutrient adequacy of the diet of rural Ghanaian infants and young children: using linear programming. Nutrition journal, 18(1), 1-16.
Dokoohaki, H., Miguez, F. E., Laird, D., Horton, R., & Basso, A. S. (2017). Assessing the biochar effects on selected physical properties of a sandy soil: an analytical approach. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 48(12), 1387-1398.
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FAO. 1988. FAO/UNESCO Soil Map of the World Revised legend, with corrections. World Soil Resources Report 60. Rome. (Reprinted as Technical Paper 20, ISRIC, Wageningen, 1994).
Haji, K. B. (2016). Performance of new released upland Nerica rice varieties under different combined rates of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers in Zanzibar (Doctoral dissertation, Sokoine University of Agriculture).
Heggenstaller, A.H., M. Liebman, and R.P. Anex. 2009. Growth analysis of biomass production in sole-crop and double–crop corn systems. Crop Sci. 49:2215– 2224. doi:10.2135/cropsci2008.12.0709
Heggenstaller, A.H., R.P. Anex, M. Liebman, D.N. Sundberg, and R. Gibson. 2008. Productivity and nutrient dynamics in bioenergy double-cropping systems. Agron. J. 100:1740–1748. doi:10.2134/agronj2008.0087
Herath, H. M. S. K., Camps-Arbestain, M., Hedley, M., Van Hale, R., & Kaal, J. (2014). Fate of biochar in chemically-and physically-defined soil organic carbon pools. Organic geochemistry, 73, 35-46.
Holzworth, D. P., Snow, V., Janssen, S., Athanasiadis, I. N., Donatelli, M., Hoogenboom, G., ... & Thorburn, P. (2014). Agricultural production systems modelling and software: current status and future prospects. Environmental Modelling & Software, 72, 276-286.
ISSS/ISRIC/FAO. 1998. World Reference Base for Soil Resources. World Soil Resources Report 84, FAO, Rome.
Keating, B. A., Carberry, P. S., Hammer, G. L., Probert, M. E., Robertson, M. J., Holzworth, D., ... & Smith, C. J. (2003). An overview of APSIM, a model designed for farming systems simulation. European journal of agronomy, 18(3-4), 267-288.
Klute, A., & Page, A. L. (1986). Methods of soil analysis. Part 1. Physical and mineralogical methods; Part 2. Chemical and microbiological properties (No. BOOK). American Society of Agronomy, Inc.
Kombiok, J. M., Safo, E. Y., & Quansah, C. (2005). Yield and nitrogen fixation of cowpea as affected by tillage and cropping systems in the Northern Savanna Zone of Ghana. West African Journal of Applied Ecology, 7(1).
Laird, D. A., Fleming, P., Davis, D. D., Horton, R., Wang, B., & Karlen, D. L. (2010). Impact of biochar amendments on the quality of a typical Midwestern agricultural soil. Geoderma, 158(3-4), 443-449.
Loecke, T.D., C.A. Cambardella, and M. Liebman. 2012. Synchrony of net nitrogen mineralization and maize nitrogen uptake following applications of composed and fresh swine manure in Midwest U.S. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 93: 65–74.
MacCarthy, D. S., Sommer, R., & Vlek, P. L. (2009). Modeling the impacts of contrasting nutrient and residue management practices on grain yield of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) in a semi-arid region of Ghana using APSIM. Field crops research, 113(2), 105-115.
Martey, E., Wiredu, A. N., Etwire, P. M., Fosu, M., Buah, S. S. J., Bidzakin, J., ... & Kusi, F. (2014). Fertilizer adoption and use intensity among smallholder farmers in Northern Ghana: A case study of the AGRA soil health project. Sustainable Agriculture Research, 3(526-2016-37782).
Martinez-Feria, R. A., Castellano, M. J., Dietzel, R. N., Helmers, M. J., Liebman, M., Huber, I., & Archontoulis, S. V. (2018). Linking crop-and soil-based approaches to evaluate system nitrogen-use efficiency and tradeoffs. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 256, 131-143.
McCown, R. L., Keating, B. A., Carberry, P. S., Hochman, Z., & Hargreaves, D. (2016). The co-evolution of the Agricultural Production Systems Simulator (APSIM) and its use in Australian dryland cropping research and farm management intervention. In Agricultural system models in field research and technology transfer (pp. 149-175). CRC Press.
Micheni, A., Kihanda, F., & Irungu, J. (2004). Soil organic matter (SOM): The basis for improved crop production in arid and semi-arid climates of eastern Kenya. Managing nutrient cycles to sustain soil fertility in sub-Saharan Africa, 608.
Mohanty, M., K. Sammi Reddy, M.E. Probert, R.C. Dalal, A. Subba Rao, and N.W. Menzies. 2011. Modeling N mineralization from green manure and farmyard manure from a laboratory incubation study. Ecol. Modeling 222:719–726. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.10.027
Nelson, W. (2020). Investigating Resource Competition in Cereal-legume Intercropping Systems (Doctoral dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen).
Obeng, H. B. (2000). Characterization and classification of some ironpan soils of Ghana.
Obodai, M. S. (2018). Phosphorus Fractions of Biochar-Amended Plinthalqualf under Clean and Waste Water Irrigation Regimes in Northern Ghana (Doctoral dissertation, University of Ghana).
Probert, M. E., Delve, R. J., Kimani, S. K., & Dimes, J. P. (2005). Modelling nitrogen mineralization from manures: representing quality aspects by varying C: N ratio of sub-pools. Soil biology and Biochemistry, 37(2), 279-287.
Sahrawat, K. L. (2005). Fertility and organic matter in submerged rice soils. Current science, 735-739.
Streubel, J. D., Collins, H. P., Garcia-Perez, M., Tarara, J., Granatstein, D., & Kruger, C. E. (2011). Influence of biochar on soil pH, water holding capacity, nitrogen and carbon dynamics. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J, 75, 1402-1413.
Tetteh, F. M., Quansah, G. W., Frempong, S. O., Nurudeen, A. R., Atakora, W. K., & Opoku, G. (2017). Optimizing fertilizer use within the context of integrated soil fertility management in Ghana. Fertilizer use optimization in Sub-Saharan Africa. CAB International, Nairobi, Kenya, 67-81.
Van Ittersum, M. K., Van Bussel, L. G., Wolf, J., Grassini, P., Van Wart, J., Guilpart, N., ... & Cassman, K. G. (2016). Can sub-Saharan Africa feed itself? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(52), 14964-14969.
Zhang, F., Cui, Z., Fan, M., Zhang, W., Chen, X., & Jiang, R. (2011). Integrated soil–crop system management: reducing environmental risk while increasing crop productivity and improving nutrient use efficiency in China. Journal of Environmental Quality, 40(4), 1051-1057.
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Frimpong-Manso, J., & Abduli-Ganiyu, S. (2022). ASSESSING UPLAND RICE, BIOCHAR AND SOIL NUTRIENT MODULES IN THE GUINEAN SAVANNA ZONE (NYANKPALA) GHANA. Proceedings of the International Conference on Agriculture, 6(1), 45–67. https://doi.org/10.17501/26827018.2021.6104
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