Increases in soil sequestered carbon under conservation agriculture cropping decrease the estimated greenhouse gas emissions of wetland rice using life cycle …

MK Alam, RW Bell, WK Biswas - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
Wetland rainfed rice (Oryza sativa L.), which covers 60 million hectares in South Asia,
contributes significantly to agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Mitigation …

Soil nitrogen storage and availability to crops are increased by conservation agriculture practices in rice–based cropping systems in the Eastern Gangetic Plains

MK Alam, RW Bell, ME Haque, MA Islam… - Field Crops Research, 2020 - Elsevier
On-farm adoption of minimum soil disturbance and increased residue retention will alter
nitrogen (N) dynamics in soils and N fertiliser management in the intensive rice–based triple …

Decreasing the carbon footprint of an intensive rice-based cropping system using conservation agriculture on the Eastern Gangetic Plains

MK Alam, RW Bell, WK Biswas - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
Emerging conservation agriculture (CA) technologies are being applied in rice-upland
cropping systems and their potential to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions of the whole rice …

Patterns of change in soil organic matter, physical properties and crop productivity under tillage practices and cropping systems in Bangladesh

MK Alam, N Salahin, S Islam, RA Begum… - The Journal of …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Conservation agriculture (CA) is inadequately developed for rice-based cropping systems
widely practiced in Bangladesh. The current drawback is the implementation of CA for all …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of rice straw mulch on soil physical properties, sunflower root distribution and yield in a salt-affected clay-textured soil

PLC Paul, RW Bell, EG Barrett-Lennard, E Kabir - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
Puddling of clay soils for rice transplanting causes a loss of soil structure and vertical
shrinkage cracks that are hypothesized to hamper sunflower root growth in the following dry …

Greenhouse gas implications of novel and conventional rice production technologies in the Eastern-Gangetic plains

MK Alam, WK Biswas, RW Bell - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2016 - Elsevier
Wetland rice (Oryza sativa L.) production contributes 55% of agricultural greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions in the world. Hence any new technology with the potential to reduce the …

Potential phosphorus and arsenic mobilization from Bangladesh soils by particle dispersion

M Martin, S Stanchi, KMJ Hossain, SMI Huq… - Science of the Total …, 2015 - Elsevier
Besides dissolution, particle dispersion and mobilization can substantially contribute to
element transfer from soils to waters. The dispersibility of the fine particulate and the …

Conservation agriculture in intensive rice cropping reverses soil potassium depletion

MJ Islam, M Cheng, U Kumar, M Maniruzzaman… - Nutrient Cycling in …, 2023 - Springer
Intensive cropping in the Eastern Gangetic Plain has progressively depleted soil potassium
(K) over time due to negative K balances. There is limited understanding of how alternative …

[PDF][PDF] Soil Properties Under Different Vegetation Types in Chittagong University Campus, Bangladesh

M Akhtaruzzaman, S Roy, MS Mahmud… - Journal of forest and …, 2020 - researchgate.net
Soil physical and chemical properties at three layers such as top (0-10 cm), middle (10-20
cm) and bottom (20-30 cm) layers under three different vegetation types were studied. Soil …

[HTML][HTML] Growth and yield responses of sunflower to drainage in waterlogged saline soil are caused by changes in plant-water relations and ion concentrations in …

MN Islam, RW Bell, EG Barrett-Lennard… - Plant and Soil, 2022 - Springer
Purpose While well-designed drainage systems could improve crop growth and yield by
mitigating waterlogging and salinity stresses, field evidence of the yield responses to …