Planted legume fallows reduce weeds and increase soil N and P contents but not upland rice yields |
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Authors: | K Saito B Linquist D E Johnson S Phengchanh T Shiraiwa T Horie |
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Institution: | 1. Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, 606-6502, Kyoto, Japan 2. Africa Rice Center (WARDA), 01 B.P. 2031, Cotonou, Benin 3. Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, 95616, USA 4. International Rice Research Institute, Los Ba?os, Philippines 5. Northern Regional Agriculture and Forestry Research Center, Luang Prabang, Lao PDR
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Abstract: | Shortened fallows have resulted in declining upland rice yields in slash-and-burn upland rice systems in northern Laos. We
studied the benefit of planted legume fallows for rice productivity, weeds, and soil nitrogen and phosphorus availability.
Four systems were evaluated over a 5-year period: 1-year fallow with native species, 1-year Cajanus cajan fallow, 1-year Leucaena leucocephala fallow, and continuous annual rice cropping. Rice was grown either once each year as continuous annual cropping or in alternate
years of 2001, 2003, and 2005. C. cajan and L. leucocephala were sown with rice during the 2001 growing season. In subsequent years, L. leucocephala regenerated from root stock and did not have to be resown, whereas C. cajan was resown in 2003. Establishment of either C. cajan or L. leucocephala had no significant effect on rice yield in 2001, and rice yields ranged from 2.0 to 2.3 t/ha. Rice yields declined rapidly
in succeeding years, and rice yields in the four systems ranged from 0.7 to 1.1 t/ha in 2003 and from 0.3 to 0.5 t/ha in 2005.
Although two planted fallow systems increased nitrogen input because of greater biomass accumulation in 2003 and 2005 and
soil phosphorus availability was higher following L. leucocephala fallow in 2005, there were no significant differences in rice yields among the four systems in either year. Weed biomass
during the rice growing season increased each year in all systems and increased more rapidly for continuous annual rice cropping,
in which the dominant weed species was Ageratum conyzoides L. Among the other three systems, there were no significant differences in the weed biomass in 2003 and 2005. We conclude
that C. cajan and L. leucocephala as 1-year fallows do not offset the negative effects of increased cropping intensity on rice yield in this region. |
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Keywords: | Cajanus cajan Laos Leucaena leucocephala Nitrogen Slash-and-burn Upland rice Weeds |
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