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ToolsMisselbrook, Tom, Bai, Zhaohai, Cai, Zejiang, Cao, Weidong, Carswell, Alison, Cowan, Nicholas, Cui, Zhenling, Chadwick, David, Emmett, Bridget, Goulding, Keith, Jiang, Rui, Jones, Davey, Ju, Xiaotang, Liu, Hongbin, Lu, Yuelai, Ma, Lin, Powlson, David, Rees, Robert, Skiba, Ute, Smith, Pete, Sylvester-Bradley, Roger, Williams, John, Wu, Lianhai, Xu, Minggang, Xu, Wen, Zhang, Fusuo, Zhang, Junling, Zhou, Jianbin and Liu, Xuejun (2022) Progress on improving agricultural nitrogen use efficiency: UK-China virtual joint centers on nitrogen agronomy. Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering, 9 (3). pp. 475-489. ISSN 2095-7505
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Abstract
Two virtual joint centers for nitrogen agronomy were established between the UK and China to facilitate collaborative research aimed at improving nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in agricultural production systems and reducing losses of reactive N to the environment. Major focus areas were improving fertilizer NUE, use of livestock manures, soil health, and policy development and knowledge exchange. Improvements to fertilizer NUE included attention to application rate in the context of yield potential and economic considerations and the potential of improved practices including enhanced efficiency fertilizers, plastic film mulching and cropping design. Improved utilization of livestock manures requires knowledge of the available nutrient content, appropriate manure processing technologies and integrated nutrient management practices. Soil carbon, acidification and biodiversity were considered as important aspects of soil health. Both centers identified a range of potential actions that could be taken to improve N management, and the research conducted has highlighted the importance of developing a systems-level approach to assessing improvement in the overall efficiency of N management and avoiding unintended secondary effects from individual interventions. Within this context, the management of fertilizer emissions and livestock manure at the farm and regional scales appear to be particularly important targets for mitigation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: This work was supported through Newton Fund via UK BBSRC/NERC (BB/N013484/1 and BB/N013468/1). Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Higher Education Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | cinag,n-circle,nitrogen use efficiency,reactive nitrogen,sustainable production,nitrogen use efficiency,reactive nitrogen,sustainable production,cinag,n-circle,veterinary(all),agricultural and biological sciences(all),biotechnology,sdg 2 - zero hunger ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3400 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Nov 2022 09:30 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2024 00:01 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/89859 |
| DOI: | 10.15302/J-FASE-2022459 |
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