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Potential Agronomic Benefits

Potential agronomic benefits refers to the measurable improvements in crop production, resource-use efficiency, and farm sustainability that arise from agronomic practices and inputs. Within crop and soil science, these benefits are quantified through endpoints such as grain and biomass yield, nitrogen-use and water…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 96× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2639-3166 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Potential agronomic benefits refers to the measurable improvements in crop production, resource-use efficiency, and farm sustainability that arise from agronomic practices and inputs. Within crop and soil science, these benefits are quantified through endpoints such as grain and biomass yield, nitrogen-use and water-use efficiency, soil fertility and organic-matter status, and resilience to abiotic and biotic stress. Agronomic gains derive from the management of fertilisation regimes, crop residue retention, soil testing and nutrient recommendation, the use of biofertilisers and organic amendments, cultivar selection, and irrigation strategy, each evaluated for its capacity to raise productivity while limiting environmental cost. Research in this field investigates the response of cereals such as sorghum and maize and oilseeds such as sunflower to combined organic and inorganic fertiliser strategies, the role of residue retention in sustaining agriculture in semi-arid tropical systems, the adequacy of soil-testing frameworks for fertiliser recommendation, and the linkage between climate change, land degradation, and food security. Predictive and diagnostic tools, including spectroscopic and foliar models for yield estimation, also feature in efforts to optimise input decisions. The discipline matters for raising and stabilising food output under constrained land and nutrient resources. The journal publishes peer-reviewed agronomy research addressing soil fertility, crop nutrition, and sustainable production.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 96 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Agronomy Research (ISSN 2639-3166).

Journal editorial board
Mahmoud Mohamed Hesham Okasha · Italy Anita Maienza · Italy Rusu Teodor · Romania

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