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Land preparation for pulses in northern Bangladesh. Photo: R.Bell

Addressing constraints to pulses in cereals-based cropping systems, with particular reference to poverty alleviation in north-western Bangladesh

Reduced fertilizer use efficiency due to drying of the surface soil is a continuing problem in rainfed cropping. Pulse crops in both Bangladesh and Australia face these constraints and there is a need to improve methods of seed and fertilizer placement in the seedbed in the cropping circumstances of both countries. To achieve this, further understanding is required of fertilizer and seeding depth interactions with soil moisture and row spacing for pulse crops. Crop response to deep fertiliser placement and to widely spaced banded fertiliser in the cropping year and to residual fertiliser from the previous crop year will be investigated in field and glasshouse experiments in Bangladesh and Western Australia.

 

Document author: R.Bell; created: 16/06/03, updated: 19/10/09 , expiry: 31/12/10 Document edited by: H.Gordon
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