Soil spatial variation to guide the development of fertilizer use recommendations for smallholder farms in western Kenya

SM Ichami, KD Shepherd, E Hoffland, GN Karuku… - Geoderma …, 2020 - Elsevier
using stepwise multiple linear regression modelling. The … of smallholder farmers' homestead,
towards the maize field. … m from the central plot and distributed uniformly around it. In a …

Fertilizer response and nitrogen use efficiency in African smallholder maize farms

SM Ichami, KD Shepherd, AM Sila… - Nutrient cycling in …, 2019 - Springer
using a meta-analysis whereas key factors that influence FR and N-AE were studied with
linear regression models… The geographical distribution of the observations besides Kenya were…

Monitoring and Modelling Analysis of Maize (Zea mays L.) Yield Gap in Smallholder Farming in Ghana

E Owusu Danquah, Y Beletse, R Stirzaker, C Smith… - Agriculture, 2020 - mdpi.com
… to address the maize yield gap in smallholder farms in Ghana. Application of N and P …
Soil NO 3 -N concentration was measured by dipping test strips on each of the samples and …

Spatial management strategies for nitrogen in maize production based on soil and crop data

E Cordero, L Longchamps, R Khosla… - Science of The Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
… Uniform N supply was suitable where no spatial pattern was … The linear model was applied
only to uniform N application … factors are related to a small-scale variability. Their integration …

Micro-spatial analysis of maize yield gap variability and production factors on smallholder farms

M Sussy, H Ola, FAB Maria, BO Niklas, O M. Cecilia… - Agriculture, 2019 - mdpi.com
… How do spatial arrangement on smallholder farms affect the maize yield gaps? Are …
Phosphorus, nitrogen and SPAD (Chlorophyll content) values increased with increasing distance …

Spatial variability and mapping of soil fertility status in a high-potential smallholder farming area under sub-humid conditions in Zimbabwe

…, J Nyamangara, EZ Nyakatawa, N Nyapwere… - SN Applied …, 2021 - Springer
spatial variability of soil properties related to fertility in maize … The model allowed prediction
of soil properties at unsampled … There were significant spatial trends in mineral N, available P …

Fertilizer profitability for smallholder maize farmers in Tanzania: A spatially-explicit ex ante analysis

S Palmas, J Chamberlin - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
… We present an easily calibrated spatial modeling framework … While our modeling focus is on
yield responses to nitrogen, in … , we re-estimate the predicted spatial distributions of fertilizer …

Maize yield in smallholder agriculture system—An approach integrating socio-economic and crop management factors

S Dutta, S Chakraborty, R Goswami, H Banerjee… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
… Yield gaps of maize (Zea mays L.) in the smallholder farms of … for C&RT analysis (n = 179),
with total maize grain yield as … maize yield, we refrained from over-interpreting the model

Digital soil mapping of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, organic carbon and their crop response thresholds in smallholder managed escarpments of Malawi

P Mponela, S Snapp, GB Villamor, L Tamene, QB Le… - Applied …, 2020 - Elsevier
… gradients in maize (Zea mays L.) mixed farming systems of … the spatial distribution/dynamics
of nutrients and soil organic … study uses the machine learning randomForest (RF) model

Digital soil mapping of soil total nitrogen based on Landsat 8, Sentinel 2, and WorldView-2 images in smallholder farms in Yellow River Basin, China

Y Xu, B Li, X Shen, K Li, X Cao, G Cui, Z Yao - … monitoring and assessment, 2022 - Springer
spatial pattern of soil total nitrogen (TN) in smallholder farm … and wheat–maize rotation. The
parent material of agricultural … soil TN model, this research established 9 soil TN prediction …