Journal of
Soil Science and Environmental Management

  • Abbreviation: J. Soil Sci. Environ. Manage.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2141-2391
  • DOI: 10.5897/JSSEM
  • Start Year: 2010
  • Published Articles: 314

Full Length Research Paper

Characterization and agricultural potentials of some pedons derived from sand stone parent rock near Abeokuta, Southwestern Nigeria

Orimoloye J. R.
  • Orimoloye J. R.
  • Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.
  • Google Scholar
Amadi-Rapheal K. A. S
  • Amadi-Rapheal K. A. S
  • Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.
  • Google Scholar
Akinbola G. E.
  • Akinbola G. E.
  • Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.
  • Google Scholar


  •  Received: 19 December 2018
  •  Accepted: 22 February 2019
  •  Published: 31 August 2019

References

Anderson G, Chen W, Bell R, Brennan R (2013). Critical values for soil P, K and S for near maximum wheat, canola and lupin production in Western Australia. WA Crop Updates 2013. Department of Agriculture and Food, P 4.

 

Belachew T, Abera Y (2010). Assessment of Soil Fertility Status with Depth in Wheat Growing Highlands of Southeast Ethiopia. World Journal of Agricultural Sciences 6(5):525-531.

 

Black CA (1975). Methods of soil analysis. Agronomy No. 9, Part 2, American Society of Agronomy, Madison. Wisconsin.

 

Brady NC, Weil RR (1999). The nature and properties of soil. Prentice Hall, New Jersey, USA. 12th Edition. P. 881.

 

Bray RH, Kurtz LT (1945). Determination of Total and Available forms of Phosphate in Oils. Soil Science 59:225-229.
Crossref

 

Cornell University Cooperative Extension (CUCE) 2007. Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC). Agronomy fact sheet series # 22. Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University.

 

Crespo CJQ, Zenteno MDC, Intriago FLM, Alvarado RAC (2017). Nutrient critical levels and availability in soils cultivated with peach palm (Bactris gasipaes Kunth) in Santo Domingo de Los Tsáchilas, Ecuador. Acta Agronomie 66(2):235-240. 

 

Datnoff LE (2007). Mineral Nutrition and Plant disease. The American Phytopathological Society ISBN0-89054-346-1

 

Edmeades DC (1982). Effects of lime on effective cation exchange capacity and exchangeable cations on a range of New Zealand soils. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 25(1):27-33. 
Crossref

 

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (1991). Guidelines: land evaluation for extensive grazing. Soils Bulletin 58. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.

 

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (2007). Land Evaluation. Towards a Revised Framework. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.

 

FAO/IUSS (2014). World Reference Base for Soil Resources (2014). International soil classification system for naming soils and creating

 

legends for soil maps. World Soil Resources. Reports No. 106. FAO, Rome. 

View

 

Fasina AS, Omolayo FA, Ajayi SO, Falodun AA (2007). Influence of Land Use on Soil Properties in Three Mapping Units in Southwestern Nigeria-Implications for Sustainable Soil Management. In: Uyovbisere, E.O, Raji, B.A, Yusuf, A.A, Ogunwale, J.O, Aliyu, L. and Ojeniyi, S.O (Eds). Soil and water management for poverty alleviation and sustainable Environment Proceedings of the 31st annual conference of SSSN/ABU Zaria Nigeria November 13th to 17th, 2006.

 

Feiziasl V, Jafarzadeh J, Pala M, Mosavi SB (2009). Determination of Critical Levels of Micronutrients by Plant Response Column Order Procedure for Dryland Wheat (T. aestivum L.) in Northwest of Iran. International Journal of Soil Science 4:14-26
Crossref

 

Fontes PCR, Ronchi CP (2002). Critical values of nitrogen indices in tomato plants grown in soil and nutrient solution determined by different statistical procedures. Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 37(10):1421-1429.
Crossref

 

Hazleton PA, Murphy BW (2007). Interpreting Soil Test Results: What Do All The Numbers Mean? CSIRO Publishing.

 

Hubrechts L, Vander PK, Vanclosster M, Deckers J (2004). From Soil Survey to quantitative land evaluation in Belgium. European Soil Bureau Research Report No 4. 

 

Jackson ML (1958). Soil Chemical analysis. Prentice Hall. Inc. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 498.

 

Klingebiel AA, Montgomery PH (1961). Land capability classification. USDA Agricultural Handbook 210. US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

 

Leibig MA, Tanaka DL, Wienhold BJ (2004). Tillage and cropping effects on soil quality indicators in the northern Great Plains. Soil and Tillage Research 78:131-141. 
Crossref

 

Lufega SM, Msanya BM (2017). Pedological Characterization and Soil Classification of Selected Soil Units of Morogoro District, Tanzania. International Journal of Plant and Soil Science 16(1):1-12 
Crossref

 

Moss RP (1975). Report on the classification of the soils found over sedimentary rocks in Western Nigeria. Soil Survey Report. No. 67. Institute of Agricultural Research and Training. University of Ife, Ibadan. P. 90.

 

Msanya BM, Mwasyika TA, Amuri N, Semu E, Mhoro L (2018). Pedological Characterization of Typical Soils of Dodoma Capital City District, Tanzania: Soil Morphology, Physico-chemical Properties, Classification and Soil Fertility Trends. Annals of Advanced Agricultural Sciences 2(4):59-73. 
Crossref

 

Nuga BO, Akinbola GE (2011). Characteristics and Classification of Soils Developed Over Coastal Plain Sand and Shale Parent Material in Abia State Nigeria. Journal of Technology and Education in Nigeria (JOTEN), 16(1):36-58. 

View

 

Nuga BO, Akinbola GE (2015). Land Suitability Evaluation of Soils on Two Mapping Units for Some Arable Crops in South Eastern Nigeria. IOSR Journal of Agriculture and Veterinary Science (IOSR-JAVS) 8(3):66-73 

View

 

Ogunkunle AO (2005). Soil Survey and Sustainable Land Management. Invited paper at the 29th annual conf. of SSSN held at University of Nigeria, Abeokuta, from 6th to 10th December. 2004.

 

Ojanuga AG (2006). Agroecological Zones of Nigeria Manual. Berding F. and Chude V.O. (Eds). National Special Programme for Food Security (NSPFS), FAO and FMA & RD. P. 123.

 

Olabode SO, Mohammed MZ (2016). Depositional facies and sequence stratigraphic study in parts of Benin (Dahomeh) Basin, SW Nigeria: Implications on the re-interpretation of tertiary sedimentary successions. International Journal of Geosciences 7:210-228.
Crossref

 

Orimoloye JR, Nuga BO, Akinbola GA (2007): Evaluation of some pedons of basement complex of Southwestern Nigeria for rainfed maize, cassava and rubber cultivation. Chemtech Journal 3:483-490

 

Reeves JL, Liebig MA (2016). Depth matters: soil pH and dilution effects in the northern Great Plains. Soil Science Society of America Journal 80:1424-1427. 
Crossref

 

Sanchez PA, Palm CA, Buol SW (2003). Fertility Capability soil classification: a tool to help assess soil quality in the tropics. Geoderma114:157-185.
Crossref

 

Senjobi BA (2007). Comparative Assessment of the Effect of Land Use and Land Type on Soil Degradation and Productivity in Ogun State, Nigeria. 161pp. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis submitted to the Department of Agronomy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

 

Sharu MB, Yakubu M, Noma SS, Tsafe AI (2013). Characterization and Classification of Soils on an Agricultural landscape in Dingyadi District,Sokoto State, Nigeria. Nigerian Journal of Basic and Applied Science (June, 2013), 21(2):137-147.
Crossref

 

Shepande C (2002). Soils and land use with particular attention and land evaluation for selected land use types in the Lake Naivasha Basin. Kenya. Unpublish. M.S.C. Thesis in Soil information, ITC. Enschede Netherlands.

 

Soil Survey Staff (1993). Soil Survey Manual. Soil Conservation Service, United State Department of Agriculture. Agricultural Handbook 18. (Online). 

 

Soil Survey Staff (2014). Keys to Soil Taxonomy. 12th Edition, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, P. 332.

 

Walkley A, Black IA (1934). AN examination of the Degitareff method for determining soil organic matter and proposed modification of the Chromic acid titration method. Soil Science 37:29-38.
Crossref

 

Weaver DM, Wong MTF (2011) Phosphorus balance efficiency and P status in crop and pasture soils with contrasting P buffer indices: scope for improvement. Plant and Soil 349:37-54.
Crossref