Due to the scarcity of alternative organic amendments, the retention of crop residue in fields
can be considered key in promoting physical, chemical, and biological attributes of soil …

This review reveals that crop residues of common cultivated crops are an important resource
not only as a source of significant quantities of nutrients for crop production but also affecting …

Crop residues are a potential source of renewable feedstocks for cellulosic ethanol
production because of their high cellulose content and easy availability. Indiscriminate …

Crop residues, the byproduct of crop production, are valuable natural resources that can be
managed to maximize different input use efficiencies. Crop residue management is a well …

Crop residues returned to the soil can maintain or enhance soil quality and productivity
through favorable effects on soil properties and life-support processes. In the US, crop …

Conservation agriculture, which is based on minimum tillage, permanent soil cover and crop
rotations, has widely been promoted as a practice to maintain or improve soil quality and …

Crop residues are mainly post-harvest remains of agriculture. The organic matters, nutrients,
and hollow structures of crop residues enable them to be applied in agriculture. In this …

Bhupinderpal-Singh, Zed Rengel 184 formly over an entire field to prevent impoverishment
of nutrients and organic C in the soil (Brennan et al. 2004; Lal 2005). It is, however, difficult …

Society is increasingly demanding a more sustainable management of agro-ecosystems in a
context of climate change and an ever growing global population. The fate of crop residues …

Crop residues are a key livelihood resource in smallholder mixed crop-livestock systems in
Sub-Saharan Africa. With expansion of arable land and resultant decline in grazing …