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Published online 5 January 2006
Published in Agron J 98:124-128 (2006)
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2005-0148
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Micro-Basin Tillage for Grain Sorghum Production in Semiarid Areas of Northern Ethiopia

Gebreyesus Brhanea, Charles S. Wortmannb,*, Martha Mamob, Heluf Gebrekidanc and Amare Belaya

a Mekelle Agricultural Research Center, P.O. Box 492, Mekelle, Ethiopia
b Dep. of Agronomy and Horticulture, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583-0915
c Alemaya Univ., P.O. Box 138, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia



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Fig. 1. Daily precipitation beginning 1 June at Abergelle in northern Ethiopia in 2003 and 2004.

 


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Fig. 2. Soil water volume for 0 to 90 cm as affected by tillage and planting treatments in (a) 2003 and (b) 2004 at Abergelle in northern Ethiopia. Y-bars equal LSD0.05 appropriate for that sampling date. Flat plant = planting with a flat soil surface. TR = tied-ridging; WAP = weeks after planting; IF and OR = in-furrow and on-ridge planting, respectively. Shilshalo = a traditional ridging practice conducted 4 wk after planting.

 


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Fig. 3. Sorghum plant height as affected by tillage treatments in 2003 (a) and 2004 (b) at Abergelle in northern Ethiopia. Y-bars equal LSD0.05. Flat plant = planting with a flat soil surface. TR = tied-ridging; WAP = weeks after planting; IF and OR = in-furrow and on-ridge planting, respectively. Shilshalo = a traditional ridging practice conducted 4 wk after planting.

 





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