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SOIL SYSTEMS
卷 6, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/soilsystems6030058
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acidity; Arenosol; land use change; nutrient deficiencies; soil-water
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- Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research [SMCN 2001/051, SMCN 2012/075, SMCN 2016/237]
Land development is occurring rapidly on sand-dominant soils in the Lower Mekong Basin, but it poses risks of degradation. Agriculture expansion on sloping uplands and intensification of cropping on lowland landscapes are the main factors contributing to these risks. Challenges include drought-prone conditions, nutrient losses, waterlogging, and soil acidity. These constraints limit the productivity and sustainable use of sand profiles. However, site-/soil-specific management strategies, land suitability assessment, and conservation agriculture principles can help overcome these constraints.
Land development is rapidly occurring on sand-dominant soils that cover substantial areas of the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB). Sands are at risk of degradation on sloping uplands where agriculture is expanding and on lowland landscapes where intensification of cropping is occurring. Sandstone and granitic geology explain the prevalence of sand-dominant textures of profiles in the LMB. However, the sand terrains in uplands of Cambodia and Southern Laos mostly have not been mapped in detail and the diversity of their edaphic properties is poorly understood. On high-permeability sands, lowland rainfed rice crops are drought-prone, while nutrient losses from leaching are also a risk. Furthermore, waterlogging, inundation and subsoil hardpans are significant hazards that influence the choice of crops and forages for lowland soils. Soil acidity, low nutrient status, hard-setting and shallow rooting depth are significant constraints for crops and forages on sands in the lowlands. Land use change in the lowlands to alternative field crops and forages on sands is contingent on their profitability relative to rice, the amounts and reliability of early wet season rainfall, and the amounts of stored water available after harvesting rice. Low soil fertility and soil acidity are limitations to the productivity of farming systems on the sand profiles in uplands, while erosion, low soil organic matter levels and water balance are concerns for their sustainable use. Site-/soil-specific fertilizer and lime management, land suitability assessment and the use of conservation agriculture principles (minimum tillage and crop residue retention) can overcome some of these constraints.
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