Measuring Impact

Research that works for developing countries and Australia

 

Soil Management and Crop Nutrition

Research Program Manager: Dr Gamini Keerthisinghe
email: keerthisinghe@aciar.gov.au

ACIAR's Soil Management and Crop Nutrition program focuses on projects designed in the context of a systems approach to conservation agriculture. This requires research on the adaptation to local conditions of established interventions in tillage and water management, nutrient management, and choice of crop rotations. Many projects are designed as short time to impact projects by inclusion of NGOs as partners, the integration of socio-economic skills in project teams, and where possible, alignment with government extension and implementation programs. In better endowed regions the emphasis is on reducing costs of production and minimising environmental impact through more efficient use of water and other inputs. In more marginal regions the emphasis will be on improving livelihoods through raising yields and the development of labour efficient production systems.

Relevant Publications

AR 2007-08 - Annual Report 2007-08

MN134 - Growing peanuts in Papua New Guinea: a best management practice manual

PR130 - Efficient nutrient use in rice production in Vietnam achieved using inoculant biofertilisers

MN130 - Soil constraints and management package (SCAMP): guidelines for sustainable management of tropical upland soils

CP13 - Country profiles 2007

AR 2006-07 - Annual Report 2006-07

EXT05 - National Agriculture Development Plan 2007-2016

AOP 2007-08 - Annual Operational Plan 2007-08

TR66 - Modelling minimum residue thresholds for soil conservation benefits in tropical, semi-arid cropping systems

CP09 - Country Profiles 2006

WP62 - Report on a review of ACIAR-funded projects on Rhizobium during 1983-2004

PR123 - Agricultural Water Management in China

MN121 - Planters and their Components: Types, attributes, functional requirements, classification and description

PR121 - Evaluation and performance of permanent raised bed cropping systems in Asia, Australia and Mexico

MN117 - Selecting Safer Pesticides - integrating risk assessment, monitoring and management of pesticides

PMg October 05 - Partners Magazine October 2005

PMg April 05 - Partners Magazine April 2005

PMg June 04 - Partners Magazine June 2004

CP10 - Country Profiles 2005

MN052 - Improving Smallholder Farming Systems in Imperata Areas of Southeast Asia: Alternatives to Shifting Cultivation

AR 2003-04 - Annual Report 2003-04

MN109 - Community Based Resource Planning - Studies from Zimbabwe and Northern Australia

MN002 - Nutritional Disorders of Grain Sorghum

PR031 - Bacterial Wilt of Groundnut

PR109 - Inoculants and Nitrogen Fixation of Legumes in Vietnam

MN078 - Soil Conservation Technologies for Smallholder Farming Systems in the Philippine Uplands

TR41 - SCUAF Version 4: A model to estimate soil changes under agriculture, Agroforestry and Forestry

PR041 - Sustainable Dryland Cropping in Semi-Arid Eastern Kenya

MN006 - Chemistry of Tropical Root Crops: Significance for nutrition and agriculture in the Pacific

MN083 - How to Unravel and Solve Soil Fertility Problems

PR072 - Sterility in Wheat in Subtropical Asia

PR065 - Mineral Deficiencies in Root Crops

PR070 - Management of Clay Soils for Rainfed Lowland Rice-based Cropping Systems

PR063 - Matching Trees and Sites

MN048 - Nutrient Disorders of Sweet Potato

FR2008-07 - Yam nutrition and soil fertility management in the Pacific