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The Effects of Fertilizers on Subtropical Hyparrhenia Veld in Swaziland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

J. H. I'Ons
J. H. I'Ons
Affiliation:
Malkerns Research Station, P.O. Box 4, Malkerns, Swaziland
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Summary

Veld dominated by Hyparrhenia and other species, in a sub-tropical 38-inch rainfall area in Swaziland, was changed into a more productive sward of Eragrostis curvula and other seral grasses by the application of nitrogen, phosphorus and lime. Nitrogen had the greatest effect in terms of both herbage production and ecological change, but responses were increased by the addition of phosphorus and lime. There were indications of yield responses to zinc in the presence of lime, and to molybdenum, but trace element effects were generally small and inconsistent.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , April 1967 , pp. 143 - 151
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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