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Effects of Fish Farming Land use on Some Soil Chemical Properties and Availability of Some Micronutrients

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Soils and water

Abstract

Nile river Delta contains the major agricultural and aquacultural base lands in Egypt. Fish farming lands are spread in the northern part of the Nile Delta. Soil/sediments in fish ponds of the Delta are drained and disposed for improving the conditions of bottoms. Land uses include upland cultivation, and short- and long-term of catfish production. It was worthy to examine the influence of fish land use on some soil properties and the availability of some soil micronutrients. Ten soil profiles were chosen to represent the most popular uses of soils in the northern Nile part of the Delta including fish farming. A virgin soil was used as a reference for making comparison among the different practices. The available content of soil Fe, Mn and Cu and their relation with soil properties were studied. The results showed that the available Mn, Fe, Cu, and Zn in the catfish pond soils were higher than north upland cultivated and virgin soils. Available Fe, Mn, Cu and Zn decreased with increasing the duration use of catfish pond soils and cultivated soils, while available Zn increased with increasing duration of cultivated soil. Available Fe, Mn, Cu and Zn showed significant correlations with soil properties. The results may be applicable to other river delta areas of the world.

DOI

10.21608/ajas.2014.596

Keywords

Micronutrients, fish ponds, Nile Delta soils

Volume

45

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

155

Issue Date

2014-03-01

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2014-03-16

Publish Date

2014-03-01

Page Start

100

Page End

115

Print ISSN

1110-0486

Online ISSN

2356-9840

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6

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Original Article

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62

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Journal

Publication Title

Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/

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Effects of Fish Farming Land use on Some Soil Chemical Properties and Availability of Some Micronutrients

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Created At

22 Jan 2023