Co-incorporating green manure and crop straw increases crop productivity and improves soil quality with low greenhouse-gas emissions in a crop rotation

• DOI: 10.1016/j.cj.2024.07.002
• Publication Date: 2024-07-31T02:30:04Z
• Authors: Na Zhao; Xiquan Wang; Jun Ma; Xiaohong Li; Jufeng Cao; Jie Zhou; Linmei Wu; Peiyi Zhao; Weidong Cao
• Keywords: Crop Rotation; Soil carbon; Soil Quality; Cropping system

In a nine-year field experiment in wheat–maize–sunflower cropping system Hetao Irrigation Area, Inner Mongolia, China, organic amendments applied as straw, manure, green and the combination of manure straw increased wheat maize yield, soil aggregate stability, microbial activity comparison with chemical fertilizer, without changing greenhouse gas emission intensity.