Long-term cover crop and no tillage experiment
This experiment has been added by the GLTEN Curators using existing published sources.
- Objective
- To study effects of cover crops and no tillage experiment.
- Data Access Statement
- Don't know
- Data license
- Don't know
- Data policy
- Don't know
- Organization
- Center for International Field Agriculture Research and Education, Ibaraki Universityresearch organisation
- People
Site: experiment site
- Type
- research station field
- Location
- MitoIbarakiJapan
- Geographic location
- 36.03269444, 140.21211111
- Visits permitted?
- No
- Soil type
- andosol
- Climatic type
- humid subtropical climate
- Climate properties
Variable Time period Value (range) Units air temperature 14.5 degree Celsius precipitation 1353 millimeter
Design period: (2002—)
- Design Type
- Randomized complete block design
- Design description
- Randomized complete block with a split plot design. Main plots measure 6 × 18m and subplots was 3 × 6m
- Number of plots
- 12
- Number of subplots
- 36
- Number of replicates
- 4
- Crops
Crop Years grown rice soybeans - Factors
- Factor name
- Factor levels
- tillage process main plot factor
no-till
conventional tillage (27 cm depth)
Application method: mouldboard ploughCover crop residues incorporatedminimum tillage (0.15 cm depth)
Application method: rotary cultivatorCover crop residues incorporated- green manure exposure split plot factor
hairy vetch
Chemical form: hairy vetch (Vicia villosa)rye
Chemical form: ryefallow
Native weeds
- Measurements
Variable Material Units Frequency Scale Comment soil properties Not specified grain yield trait Not specified forage yield Not specified
Related publications
- Heppy Suci Wulanningtyas, Yingting Gong, Peiran Li, Nobuo Sakagami, Junko Nishiwaki, Masakazu Komatsuzaki, 2021. A cover crop and no-tillage system for enhancing soil health by increasing soil organic matter in soybean cultivation, Soil and Tillage Research, Volume 205, 104749 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2020.104749 [In English]
- Aduhene-Chinbuah, J.; Sugihara, S.; Komatsuzaki, M.; Nishizawa, T.; Tanaka, H. No Tillage Increases SOM in Labile Fraction but Not Stable Fraction of Andosols from a Long-Term Experiment in Japan. Agronomy 2022, 12, 479. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12020479 [In English]