Innovations in Dryland Agriculture

394 formed between extensive cultivation and poor production since ancient times. In order to survive from food shortage, local ...

395 natural ecosystem. The uncoordinated changes in the functions of two systems are called the disorders of ecological balance. ...

396 of new China, the government has taken large-scale actions to build terraces. The terraces construction during the period fr ...

397 Fig. 1 Dryland agricultural areas in China (Data (1950–2000) of air temperature and precipitation are from China Meteorologi ...

398 3 Plastic Film Mulched Ridge-Furrow Cultivation In many countries around the world except China, plastic film mulch is widel ...

399 weed growth and saved labor; with this practice, the land needed no-tillage for three to four years. The grain yield was als ...

400 Table 2 Maize grain yield of rainfall-harvest cultivation of R-F (ridge-furrow) mulched with plastic film Site/Year Growth s ...

401 the furrows between ridges. The width of the ridge and furrow is dependent on the specific water and heat conditions. In the ...

402 of the average annual rainfall was 273 mm, which was appropriate for the use of ridge-furrow with film-mulching (Liu et al. ...

403 soil erosion, and thus barn feeding must be the dominate measures for husbandry developing, with supplement of grazing anima ...

404 bandry industry, and maize as one of main food crops. However, the production capacity determines the size of feeding livest ...

405 grows up gradually and as high as 6000 kg ha−^1 at the end of 6 years’ experiments (Fig. 6 ). With the plantation of alfalfa ...

406 tion coverage, the alfalfa plantation gained the significant advantage in ecological vegetation restoration compare to veget ...

407 In this model diagram, the flat land (first zone) at the foot of hill has the best ecological conditions; it could only grow ...

408 mostly suffered from strong disturbance including constant reclamation, repeated abandon, and subsequent fallow-rotation pra ...

409 6 Conclusion and Future Prospective Dryland agriculture of China is located in semi-arid and semi humid but drought- prone a ...

410 Acknowledgements The research was funded by International Cooperation Program of Ministry of Science and Technology of China ...

411 Jia Y, Li F-M (2011) Production and ecological benefits of alfalfa fields in the Loess Plateau. Ed Jianguo Wu & Feng-Min ...

412 Liu XE, Li XG, Hai L, Wang YP, Li FM (2014b) How efficient is film fully-mulched ridge-furrow cropping to conserve rainfall ...

413 Yang F-K (2006) Research on rainwater harvesting and yield increasing effect of terrace in semi- arid area of Loess Hilly Re ...