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Soil Tillage and Windbreak Effects on Millet and Cowpea: I. Wind Speed, Evaporation, and Wind Erosion

Inst. of Plant Production in the Tropics and Substropics

A. Buerkert and P. G. Serafini

Inst. of Plant Nutrion, Univ. of Hohenheim, DW-7000 Stuttgart 70, Germany
International Agricultural Programs, Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701

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Deforestation, overgrazing, and declining soil regeneration periods have resulted in increased wind erosion problems in dry areas of the West African Sahel, but little is known about the bio-physical factors involved. This research was conducted to determine the effects of ridging and four different windbreak spacings on wind erosion, potential evaporation, and soil water reserves. A field trial was conducted from 1985 to 1987 on 12 ha of a Psammentic Paleustalf in Southern Niger. Millet, Pennisetum glaucum (L.), and cowpea, Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp., were seeded in strips on flat and ridged soil. Windbreaks of savannah vegetation were spaced at 6, 20, 40, and 90 m. The effects of ridging on wind speed, evaporation, and wind erosion were small and mostly non-significant. However, average wind

Received for publication November 15, 1990.

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