Long-term changes in soil chemical properties with cropland-to-orchard conversion on the Loess Plateau, China: Regulatory factors and relations with apple yield

Jiarui Zhao, Zhanjun Liu, Bingnian Zhai, Hui Jin, Xinpeng Xu and Yuanjun Zhu

Agricultural Systems, 2023, vol. 204, issue C

Abstract: Farmland-to-apple orchard conversion prevails on the Loess Plateau in China and in other developing countries, but simultaneously, apple orchards have been severely overfertilized in the past two decades.

Keywords: Apple orchards; Overfertilization; Soil chemical properties; Geostatistics; Soil degradation; Scenario analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2022.103562

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